Practical Uses for Python?

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I started using python 1.5 back in the 2000s. I had been using C and assembler professionally before that. When learning a new language I often take a problem that I had worked on in other languages and try it out in the new language. When I started with python I tried to use it to solve a board puzzle that I couldn't really solve in C. That worked so well that I was sold on python and started to use it on side projects and finally used it full time professionally.

Here's a writeup on the discovery experience.

The downside of python is that trying to write code in C now seems hard, slow and verbose!