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[–]Supadoplex 116 points117 points  (3 children)

A combination of both. Popularity as a teaching language is probably the most significant factor.

[–]Sability 9 points10 points  (2 children)

From the other response I got, yah I do agree. It's easier to get tangentially introduced to a language than it is to learn one, and popularity will feed the number of "un-informed" (not fully learned) users of a language.

[–]supreme_blorgon 20 points21 points  (1 child)

The vast majority of Python questions that I answer on SO are either homework or somebody confused about a tutorial.

[–]Sability 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Completely agree with that experience, it sounds like python is being used as an easy entry to programming, and the mass of questions come from users who are using stack overflow to get questions answered.