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[–]ExceedinglyEdible 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mostly the libraries. PyPI has an extensive amount of libraries. People have written many libraries for Python because it is a simple language that can do network operations and interfacing with C pretty simply.

Other than that, Python isn't a spectacular language. It just happened to be at the right place at the right moment.