In the late 1980, Guido van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica came up with the idea of Python. Around December 1989, the development of Python started, where Guido van Rossum became the self-proclaimed "benevolent dictator for life" until 2018. In 1994 Python reached its first full Version, 1.0. At this time, Python was never a very popular language and outclassed by the popular scripting language Perl. 
With Version 2.0, which was released in October 2000, Python became a popular alternative scripting languge. Even though Python offered full object-oriented features, it still had no chance against other popular object oriented languages, such as Java. Because python offered a way to connect multiple langugaes through Python, many developeres used it next to their primary programming language.
A big shift in mindset happend in 2007 with the launch of Dropox. As Dropox was written entirely in Python, a lot more people took Python more serious. 
In 2008 Python 3.0 was realesed, where they "reduce feature duplication by removing old ways of doing things", which further increased the maintainability and readability of python code. After this time many very popular libraries, such as NumPy were released, offering high performance packages for most calculations, alowing Python to compete with other scripting languages such as R and Matlab.
As Python combines easy to read code with other high performance languges, it allowed developement of even more high performant libraries like Pytorch, Tensorflow, scipy. These libraries further increasing the performance of code, while staying readable and easy to use.

In conclusion, Python became popular for its readability and its connection with other languages. As Thomas Hatch once said "Python is great for many things, but the best part is its ability to play nice with many languages". Because many high performant data science libraries are written for Python, it is likely that the popularity will increase even further.
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