For me, also with quite a bit of experience with Perl and Python, the main reason to use Python over Perl is readability. Especially when it comes to code writt

For me, also with quite a bit of experience with Perl and Python, the main reason to use Python over Perl is readability. Especially when it comes to code written or modified by less experience engineers. Programmers tend to think that writability is the most important when it comes to coding, while readability is actually far more important. I agree that using Python's re module is harder to write for than regexps in Perl or Ruby. But honestly it's not that much harder, and usually using it leads to clearer, more explicit and more readable code.