https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Python-con … l-language
...it is much farther away from machine code than other languages.

My understanding is that this is the list of languages, in order from lowest to highest:

Assembly
C
C++
Java
Python/Perl/Php/Ruby/Javascript

What makes a language "high" level is how far away from machine code it is. How many layers away from simple 0s and 1s it is.

When you write Python, for example, it is not a compiled language, but an interpreted one. This means that it needs to be run by another program, called the interpreter, rather than the processor itself. C, however, runs straight off the processor, because it boils down to assembly after its compiled.

Generally, interpreted languages are high level, while compiled languages are more low level.

Java is the exception. It is both compiled and interpreted. That's another topic, however.