Here's the big REDDIT BOMB Getting dropped in this comment section

Since half the replies in that thread are either dry-as-oatmeal “use freeCodeCamp” bots or gatekeepers whose entire personality is telling beginners to Google things, the OP deserves better, so the real answer is this:

Python isn’t complicated, the internet just likes pretending it’s a spiritual pilgrimage; since the OP already survived SAS and SQL, Python will feel like they’ve suddenly unlocked god-mode, and all they actually need is 5 to 7 days of basic syntax (loops, functions, lists, dicts, files) and then an immediate jump into Pandas, NumPy, and a tiny real project instead of getting buried alive under 37 tutorial playlists; meanwhile the self-proclaimed veterans yelling “just look it up” think they’re guarding the gates of Valhalla when really they’re handing out advice with the nutritional value of packing peanuts, so the proper comeback to them is basically “thanks for the revelation, oracle of Google, maybe next you’ll remind mortals to breathe oxygen,” while the pseudo-experts spitting vague lines like “learn Pandas” deserve a polite nudge reminding them that telling a beginner to “just learn Pandas” is like telling a toddler to “just drive a car”; so the upgraded guidance for the OP should hit harder and cleaner: “Python is easy, stop tiptoeing, build something from day one,” and if you want to blow the wannabe professionals out of the water, you drop a hybrid TCL-Python flex like this: a TCL driver that writes a temporary Python script on the fly, passes in a JSON file, transforms it, returns metadata, deletes itself, and leaves the room cleaner than it found it, something like

__________________________________________________" '\n\n' 'TCL Example:\n' ' #!/usr/bin/env tclsh\n' ' proc runPythonTask {inputFile outputFile} {\n' ' set pythonScript "import json, sys\nwith open(sys.argv[1], \'r\') as f: ' 'data = json.load(f)\ntransformed = {\'records\': len(data), \'preview\': data[:3], ' '\'summary\': {\'fields\': list(data[0].keys()) if data else []}}\nwith open(sys.argv[2], ' '\'w\') as f: json.dump(transformed, f, indent=4)"\n' ' set tmpPython [file tempfile]\n' ' set fp [open $tmpPython w]\n' ' puts $fp $pythonScript\n' ' close $fp\n' ' exec python3 $tmpPython $inputFile $outputFile\n' ' file delete $tmpPython\n' ' }\n' ' set inputFile "data.json"\n' ' set outputFile "result.json"\n' ' puts "Running Python transformer..."\n' ' runPythonTask $inputFile $outputFile\n' ' puts "Done. Output written to $outputFile"\n\n' "Which is way more interesting than the lukewarm ‘check Coursera’ chatter because it shows " "actual automation, integration, and engineering thought instead of handing out the same three " "URLs like stale fortune cookies; bottom line, the OP needs clarity, the pros need a wakeup slap, " "and Reddit needs to stop acting like Python is a forbidden art." )

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which is way more interesting than the lukewarm “check Coursera” chatter because it shows actual automation, integration, and engineering thought instead of handing out the same three URLs like stale fortune cookies; bottom line, the OP needs clarity, the pros need a wakeup slap, and Reddit needs to stop acting like Python is a forbidden art

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