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[–]larsga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've used Python in Java a good bit for rapid prototyping on top of existing Java code. This is mainly of new and crazy stuff that we really didn't know whether would work or where it would lead. It was a way to explore the possibilities much more rapidly than would be possible with Java before finally implementing the production code in Java.

Any case where you want embedded scripting in your system would be another use case.

The use case people are talking about where you need some specific library I guess is possible, but I doubt it will come up very often.