Guido van Rossum began working on Python in the late 1980s as a successor to the ABC programming language and first released it in 1991 as Python 0.9.0. It is often described as a 'batteries included' language due to its comprehensive standard library. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including structured (particularly procedural), object-oriented and functional programming.
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