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What Is Python & Django and Why Are They Considered a Top Choice for Web Development?

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Nataly Palienko
What Is Python & Django and Why Are They Considered a Top Choice for Web Development?

Choosing a programming language for your product is a major challenge. It’s a big decision. There are plenty of programming languages, but usually a couple lend themselves to your particular goals.

Here at SteelKiwi, Python and the Django web framework are our primary tools for backend web development. As one of the leading Python and Django development companies, we have a number of reasons for developing web projects using these technologies. In this article, we’ll tell you what Python and Django are, why they’re so popular, who uses them, and why you should consider Python web development with Django.

The what, who, and why of Python web development

To find out whether Python is the best web development option for your software, you should examine Python in detail. And the first thing to consider is what Python is.

What is Python?

While writing an email application in C around 1990, Guido van Rossum encountered some difficulties crafting a login program since there weren’t existing systems for managing logins and passwords yet. Feeling that this login program would have involved writing too much in C, van Rossum came up with the idea of Python. First introduced to the public in 1991, Python was the most loved language in 2018 according to the annual Stack Overflow survey. What’s so special about Python? And why is it so popular? Let’s first answer the question of what Python is.

According to the Python Software Foundation, “Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics.” Let’s break this down.

  • Python is a high-level programming language, meaning it contains words and phrases comprehensible to humans. To translate this high-level language into machine code, Python uses an interpreter. An interpreter converts source code into code understood by computers. As an interpreted language, Python uses memory efficiently, is easy to debug, and allows developers to perform complex tasks in a couple of steps and edit code quickly.
  • Most modern programming languages, including Python, are considered object-oriented. The idea behind object-oriented languages is that the program is split into independent objects that communicate between themselves. This pretty much looks like a collection of mini-programs. Objects help developers write better structured code, resulting in software that’s easier and faster to build, maintain, and debug.
  • Python is a dynamic language. This means that developers don’t have to declare variable types. Python verifies types and errors at runtime (when the program is launched), but not during compilation (when source code is converted to machine code). This results in less code, faster development, and greater flexibility and ...Read more Steelkiwi Blog
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