About the book: year / The course is dedicated to one of the rapidly developing and currently popular scripting programming languages ​​- Python. The Python language allows you to quickly create both prototypes of software systems and the software systems themselves, and helps in integrating software to solve production problems. Python has a rich standard library and a large number of extension modules to cover almost every need in the information technology industry. Thanks to its clear syntax, learning the language is not a big problem. Programs written in it are structured in form, and it is easy to trace the logic of their work. Using the Python language as an example, such important concepts as: object-oriented programming, functional programming, event-driven programs (GUI applications), data presentation formats (Unicode, XML, etc.) are discussed. The ability to operate the Python interpreter in an interactive mode allows you to significantly reduce the time spent learning the language itself and move on to solving problems in the relevant subject areas. Python is freely available for many platforms, and programs written in it are usually portable between platforms without modification. This circumstance allows you to use any available hardware platform for language learning..