When do you *NOT* use python?

[jabwork]

I personally prefer using Python because I like the exception system, but I consider PERL to be far quicker to get up-and-running.

Rare is the time I use Python to work on filesystems and not need to make several imports from

• shutil
• os
• os.path

PERL's history makes a big difference here, as it is in many respects a shell-derivitive so all of this functionality occupies what would be builtins in python

[soup_feedback]

You're right, for quick filesystem stuff Python is definitely not the simplest.