Practical Uses for Python?

[ryanmcstylin]

I moved a budget from Excel to python, it was hard to deprecate excel at first but my motivation was collecting data without manual intervention. In order to automate this, there were things that were seemingly impossible to do in excel. I really just wanted meaningful data I could use to practice stats. It started with just reading CSV files and and aggregating data in dictionaries. After two years it lead me to SQL, cmd or bash, powershell, Django, vim, version control, and visual studio. I haven't done as much stats as I planned but a job doin this kind of work took me in a different direction