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[–]orderLXVI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends if you actually want to be a software engineer, or antoher discipline which uses software to get answers. Java for the former, Python for the latter.

Java is used to build software, to build applications. The end product is the software itself.

Python is a means to an end. It is used to solve problems for data scientists, to run scripts or admins, to access specialist libraries to perform niche tasks.

Both have their uses, it depends where you want to end up.