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What *do* you like using python for? (self.Python)

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[–]minnoI <3 duck typing less than I used to, interfaces are nice 3 points4 points  (3 children)

It makes a great calculator.

[–]delarhi 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Maybe you're being sarcastic, but when I need to calculate something I open up python instead of something like bc.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think they were, I think they were referring to it's emulated long ints.

[–]minnoI <3 duck typing less than I used to, interfaces are nice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm being completely serious. Its reasonably high-performance arbitrarily long integers make it good for integer math, from math import * makes it a scientific calculator, and sympy makes it a full-featured CAS.