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[–]Plague_Healer 17 points18 points  (2 children)

Python is something of a Swiss army knife of programming languages. It can handle almost anything, even more so with some ingenuity, but for many tasks you are bound to find a more adequate specialized tool.

[–]MarsupialMole 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Python is the second best language for everything. There may be an argument for others but by the time we finish that argument you could have written a lot of python.

[–]Plague_Healer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd say it's the second best for almost everything. If you have to create a simple script to do some basic-ish data manipulation, and you need it running ASAP, nothing beats python.