Python is easy to learn and put into practice -  It's ease of use and the fact that both expert programmers – in any programming language – and ready-to-learn, eager coders can adapt and learn Python pretty quickly. One of its advantages is its clean syntax and indentation structure which make it simple to learn. 

Functions are defined - Defining functions plays a huge part in extensible programming and is a great advantage when using Python. As Python themselves put it, this versatile programming language allows mandatory and optional arguments, keyword arguments, and even arbitrary argument lists.

Python allows for quick coding - One of the biggest advantages and selling points about Python web programming is how timesaving it is to use when developing. Whatech.com highlights that “the code which takes three hours to write in Java takes just 30 minutes to write in Python” which is another reason we have seen a rise in popularity. 

Python is versatile - Simplicity and flexibility are at the forefront of this language's versatile mind. Straightforward syntax? Check. Use of indented spaces? Absolutely. In fact, it’s avid practitioners, known as Pythonistas, have uploaded 145,000 custom-built software packages to an online repository. “From game development to astronomy, these can be installed and inserted into a Python program in a matter of seconds.”

Python understands compound data types - Lists – known as arrays in other languages – are one of the compound data types that Python really understands. Lists can be indexed, sliced and manipulated with other built-in functions.   

Libraries in data science have Python interfaces - The need for more experienced data analysis has indeed become one of the most rapidly developed areas of IT in today’s times, and Python takes center stage when it comes to usage. Libraries used in data science have Python interfaces, making it the most popular interface used in machine learning.  

Python is widely supported - If you are seeking out a particular application or looking for a library with particular functionality, the Python website provides a Python Package Index, which is rather humorously known as the Cheese Shop, a reference to the Monty Python script of the very same name. 

Python has held first place on the TIOBE index in 2022 and 2023. Since TIOBE describes its index as “an indicator of the popularity of programming languages”, this is a pretty big deal. 

TIOBE also shows Python’s growing use in teaching, citing data that Python featured in 70% of introductory programming courses at US universities. 

Google itself has been taking advantage of python since it has improved in efficiency.. It now sits comfortably as one of Google’s official server-sides, nestled in amongst the stellar likes of C++, Java, and Go. 

In case you aren’t really sure about how important Python is to Google, Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum –  Python’s founder, BFF, and previous BDFL, Benevolent dictator for life – worked at Google between 2005 and 2012. Self-described as “Gawky and proud of it,” van Rossum stated: “The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code – not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader.”