#1 - it comes installed on most Linux and on Mac (even though different versions can be a bit of a pain sometimes) #2 - it's dead simple to do things; the synt

#1 - it comes installed on most Linux and on Mac (even though different versions can be a bit of a pain sometimes) #2 - it's dead simple to do things; the syntax is, to me at least, about as direct and uncomplicated as you can get (and without being overly wordy!) #3 - so many handy libraries... it's good for full projects, and it's great for integrating and gluing things together I wouldn't call programming in Python fun, per se, but I do call "getting things done quickly and easily" fun.