Python falls under the category of high-level, interpreted languages. A high-level language is one which cannot be understood directly by our machine. There is a certain degree of abstraction in its syntax. Machines are generally designed to read machine code, but high-level syntax cannot be directly converted to machine code.

As a result, it must first be converted to bytecode which is then converted to machine code before the program can be executed.

Python is an interpreted language because, during execution, each line is interpreted to the machine language on-the-go.

However, if we take the example of C++, the code needs to be compiled into an executable first, and then it can be executed. In Python, we can skip this compilation step (Python does it for us behind the scenes) and directly run the code.

In Python, no need to take care about low-level details such as managing the memory used by the program.