Python is a dynamically typed, interpreted language that was initially well suited for scripting tasks that are boring and repetitive day-to-day tasks. But as the years progressed, the language gained a number of new features and the huge backing of its community, which propelled its development to make it a language that is now well suited to performing tasks that range from very simple applications, such as web scraping, to analyzing large amounts of data for training machine learning models that themselves are written in Python. Let's take a look at some of the major things that have changed over the years and see what the latest release of Python, Python 3, brings to the table.