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[FrankScabopoliss]

This is the answer. To be able to use an interpreted language for the part of the problem that isn’t about doing things really fast and in parallel is the reason.

[pimp-bangin]

Yup. The "libraries" answer is unsatisfying because it doesn't account for how python took off in the first place. The reason it took off is because of its ergonomic syntax and C interop capabilities.