# Python

Tool · [Standard tools and platforms](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tools)

Also called: Python language, py, Pyhton

A [programming language](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tech-stack) known for being easy to read. It is the most common language for data work and AI, and is also used for websites and automation.

**For example:** A data scientist writes a short Python script that cleans a customer [spreadsheet](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/spreadsheet) and trains a simple model on it.

Official site: <https://www.python.org>

## Connects to (6)

- [Tech stack](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tech-stack): The set of programming languages and tools a product is built with.
- [AI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/terms/ai): Artificial intelligence.
- [Back end](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/back-end): The part of an app that runs out of sight on a server.
- [Training](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/training): Teaching an AI model by showing it a very large number of examples before anyone uses it.
- [JavaScript](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/javascript): The programming language that runs in every web browser, and also on servers.
- [MicroGPT](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/microgpt): A very small GPT language model written by Andrej Karpathy in a few hundred lines of plain Python, meant to show how training and running…

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