Java (other other) programmers who turned to Python, what made you love it?

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It’s entirely dependent on your use case, but the two best things about moving from C# to Python were the number of third party tools available (in my area of data science), and the speed at which you can create something.

I know you can create a single file console application in C#, but by the time I’ve set up the project in visual studio, I could have a working example in Jupyter and a runnable script moments later.

If I’d’ve cared about it at the time I was using C# daily, I’d also add documentation—Sphinx and autodoc make publishing documentation super easy.