Python—Hello, World!

Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation. Python is dynamically typed and garbage-collected. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including structured, object-oriented and functional programming

Hello, World!

Python is a interpreted language, so you can run the code directly in the terminal.

python3 # this will open the python interpreter

(base) com@example ~ % python3
Python 3.11.5 (main, Sep 11 2023, 08:31:25) [Clang 14.0.6 ] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print("Hello, World!")
Hello, World!

python3 hello.py

Why python3 instead of python?

There are some reasons to use python3 instead of python. one of them is that python is linked to python2 in some systems.

You can see discussion on Stack Overflow about this topic.

Python2

Python2 and Python3 have some differences. The most important is in print function. In Python2, print is a statement, so you don't need to use parentheses.

print "Hello, World!"

References

• Python
• Python2
• Python Statements
• Python Functions