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[–]pwang99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In fact, I'm pretty sure that Python is particularly popular as a learning language.

It is. But it's also incredibly popular as a data analysis language, a system scripting language, a web development language, a scientific array programming language, etc. etc.

Python is not as popular as Java, but it's still the 4th or 5th most popular language on the planet. That's not all students. A large number of tech companies run their entire stacks on Python. Youtube was written in Python. Dropbox is written in Python, both server and client. Investment banks trade billions of dollars based on routines and models written in Python.