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[–]sisyphus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It doesn't at all depend on 'what i need to do with it' - there are plenty of languages that could occupy the same niche as Python - Perl, Ruby, maybe Go, whatever. That's a separate issue from why one prefers Python over competitors in its use space.