> I seriously can't think of a job that Python does best. For me personally it is the best choice for non-throwaway shell scripting once the scripts becomes mo

> I seriously can't think of a job that Python does best. For me personally it is the best choice for non-throwaway shell scripting once the scripts becomes more complex and/or long lived than a sequence of shell commands. Python is part of the base install of just about every mainstream Linux distro, so in that regard its only real competitor is Perl.