5 Real World Applications of Python

2 min readOct 23, 2020

Python is a high level and general purpose language. Python is nowadays, most popular computer language in the world. The reason for its popularity is that it is easy to use and it requires only fewer lines of codes then other computer languages like C++, C and Java. Due to this reason, it is highly productive and many programmers prefer this as their first language.

Here are five uses of python in the real life:

1. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Python is the most preferred language in the world of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Due to its simplicity it is used by many programmers in AI and Machine Learning. Python’s libraries have gives you access to handle and transform data to use easily in machine learning.

If you want to pursue your career in the field of Artificial Intelligence then Python is best for you.

2. Web Development

Python is also used widely in web development. Django is the most famous framework for web development. Others include bottle.py, flask and pyramid. These can be used in making various websites on the internet.

Such websites include Google, Netflix, Instagram and Spotify.

3. Games Development

Python can be used in making games. Such as Battle Fields 2, World of Tanks, Eve online and Snake. If you are a programmer and have knowledge of python you can build many games using python programming.

4. Data Science

Python is an Object Oriented Programming (OOP). It is most widely used in the fields of Data Science along with R. Its fewer lines of codes and libraries support data scientists to use python as their first language.

Data scientists and Engineers have use python for the analyses of data and in excel spreadsheet.

5. Desktop GUI

Along with games development and web development python is also used in Desktop GUI. GUI stands for Graphical User Interface.

Some popular GUI frameworks include PyQt, PySide, WxPython, Kivy and Tkinter.

You can also read my articles on Types of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science and its Subfields.