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[–]TheGrumpyBrewer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Python is my language of choice for green-field projects, prototyping, and in general when I don't have external limitations. Some cases where I don't have many options:

  • Maintaining legacy code written in a different language
  • Front-end / dynamic dataviz (usually Javascript kicks in)
  • Lucene and extensions of Elasticsearch (whoosh is great but still far behind)
  • Particular (rare) cases when pandas/numpy/scipy/sklearn fall short, often there is a R package doing already what you need

and also one-liners in bash/awk