---
title: "How Does Python Work?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-does-python-work--tg6hamytn
source_url: https://python.plainenglish.io/how-does-python-work-7dc53da52065?source=rss------python-5
type: article
source: "Medium"
published: 2022-09-27T22:55:08.250Z
updated: 2022-09-27T22:55:08.249Z
tags: ["python", "nlp", "functional-programming"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 19
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# How Does Python Work?

**[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 4 min read · 19 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Python is a high-level, object-oriented, interpreted general-purpose programming language. It can be used by anyone, not just software engineers, but mathematicians, data scientists, financiers, artists, and scientists, in almost any industry. It has an interpreter that is already binary.

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