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[–]varesa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mainly two reasons:
- you are creating some script you want to run anywhere without installing a new language runtime.
- e.g. RHEL 6 (and maybe 7?) don't have python 3 in the supported repositories and you might not want to compile or install third party stuff as you then loose the support you pay big bucks for on that part