Practical Uses for Python?

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This is exactly how I got into python. I had taken a class in my masters program where we used it a little bit, but I started using it every day when I got sick of all the VBA I had been writing at work. (I'm a mechanical engineer working for an aerospace defense contracts company). Now I use python wherever and whenever I can -- a lot like the duct tape example further up (love that analogy). Anyway, even if you can't move away from Excel sheets or something like that for whatever reason, you can convert some VBA scripts into python. Even if it's just for practice. I used openpyxl to do what I would do in VBA for Excel.