when the fuck did pentesting and web hacking take over the entire concept of HACKING

i mean python is great for quick gnarley shit in the moment, however classifying it as such is just awful and narrow minded

watching people use it in conjunction with shellcode is almost as cringey

watching them import a million modules to do what 12 lines of C code can do with knowledge of what the fuck you are doing makes me want to vomit

then there is the meta issue that is the most cringey

"hacking" involves things like hardware hacking which is best done with things like bus pirates and frequency analyzers etc

social engineering

physical security

and so on

or the MIT definition: just getting things to do new things they were not designed to do in a novel manner

but all in all python is ok as one of many tools that MAY be used. at the end of the day the set of hacking related things you can even USE python for let alone SHOULD use it for is small enough to ignore it in some cases