This document provides an overview of the Python programming language. It discusses that Python first appeared in 1991 and is designed by Guido Van Rossum. It highlights that Python is an interpreted, high-level and dynamic programming language with extensive libraries and support for object-oriented, functional and procedural styles. The document also gives examples of basic Python commands, variables, operators, control structures like conditionals and loops, functions, modules, and data structures like lists, tuples and dictionaries.