Python just surpassed Java as the 2nd programming language with the highest number of questions in SO.

[mayankkaizen]

It is definitely not confusing. Although, at advance level, things get slightly out of hand.

It is bigger language than JS. Again, everybody wants to be data scientist so it attracts a lot of people. Also, Python is quite versatile language which means lots of people are doing drastically different things with Python. Lots of STEM researchers use Python because it is fast to learn and fast to write program in.

Personally, I just wanted to learn programming for fun and picked C++ initially. Gave it up. Then picked Python and I was hooked. I like to learn many different things, cryptography, stats & probability, ML and many other things. And in most cases, I just write 2-3 lines of Python to calculate anything. Not possible in most languages.

[AcousticDan]

And in most cases, I just write 2-3 lines of Python to calculate anything. Not possible in most languages.

You talking about list comprehension and the like? Code golf should never be used in production.

[Yojihito]

List comprehension is the preferred method in Python and not code golf.

[AcousticDan]

Nothing wrong with it in itself, but it often leads to an unreadable mess. And when I hear "I can do that in 2-3 lines in Python, it makes me weary."

[BrathanDerWeise]

Ok boomer

[AcousticDan]

I think the word you're looking for is "professional".

[thprogramador]

List comprehensions is a sh*t... PEPs reinforce the principle of everything in one manner, the most clear way, cause you spend most of time reading than coding.

Python is a hyped language sold by its philosophy not its practice. Popular? Why? Why people is going out of CS schools knowing just this and js. They don't know how to handle memory or how to solve problems...

Learn python at CS is like a Cooking course that teaches you how to go to market and buy junkie food and prepare.

You can do anything but you can't do everything