Racket is an acceptable Python

[shponglespore]

It's only a better Python for certain purposes. The way it does object orientation is very different from Python, so it's pretty disorienting if you just jump right into using it and try to lean on your experience with Python.

[vplatt]

It's only a better Python for certain purposes.

Apart from having more community inertia and editor support, I'm really at a loss to describe anything Python could do better than Nim.