"i continue to not understand why anybody likes python the language." As someone who has had a lifetime of on-off relationships with attempting to become a com

"i continue to not understand why anybody likes python the language." As someone who has had a lifetime of on-off relationships with attempting to become a competent programmer, (BASIC, assembler, C, Pascal, Visual Basic, C++ and others that I can no longer remember), Python is the only language that has helped me become anywhere near useful or proficient as a programmer. I've managed to build a couple of -genuinely useful- applications (one of which is being used daily in my girlfriend's school), which hasn't been the case for anything else. I've found that Python is simple enough to learn, and hasn't really been any kind of a limitation for me - this may be because of me, not the language - OK, I appreciate that I'm not going to be writing 3D games or real-time audio apps in it, but for what I've been trying to do (solve real-world problems), it's been amazing. I even programmed a 'play sound effects when you press a MIDI controller' system which I used at a show with 20,000 people attending this summer, replacing a massively over-complex (and expensive) audio environment with about 30 lines of Python combined with two libraries I spent an afternoon learning. That, for me, is why I like Python.