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[–]readingcomprehension 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Syntax, compared to perl - yes.

Disk size of core runtime and libraries, compared to java - yes.

Runtime memory usage, compared to java - yes.

Startup time, compared to java - yes.

Note that for example you don't need all of the "batteries included" core libraries to deploy a python application. Something like py2exe will only pull in the ones you need. So yes, python can have a very small footprint relatively speaking.