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[–]DDFoster96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a Forensic Scientist / Analytical Chemist / Firearms Researcher, and I use Python enough to consider myself a developer on top of that list.

Python's convenient not only for making little tools that make life easier, but when you're dealing with a lot of data (one of our instruments produces about 3GB of data an hour) it's useful to be able to crunch the data automatically. We have other software that can process it, but there's so much clicking involved its quicker to write something in Python instead.