Answer 1

Since 2003, Python has consistently ranked in the top ten most popular programming languages in the TIOBE Programming Community Index. As of March 2017, it is the fifth most popular language. It was selected Programming Language of the Year in 2007 and 2010. It is the third most popular language whose grammatical syntaxis not predominantly based on C.

An empirical study found that scripting languages, such as Python, are more productive than conventional languages, such as C and Java, for programming problems involving string manipulation and search in a dictionary, and determined that memory consumption was often "better than Java and not much worse than C or C++".

Large organizations that use Python includeWikipedia, Google, Yahoo!, CERN, NASA, and some smaller entities likeILM and ITA. The social news networking site Reddit is written entirely in Python.