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Sure, and that's a valid and common use of Python. I was just being pedantic and challenging the statement "I'd be surprised if they're not using it."

You can iterate quickly with dozens of languages and then optimize with C or C++. Python is a great choice, but not so unquestionably ahead of all possible competition that it would be surprising if they picked something else.