Yes, if you don't want to be forced to write exception handling and doing a dozen different tricks for merely writing and using one single regular expression.

Yes, if you don't want to be forced to write exception handling and doing a dozen different tricks for merely writing and using one single regular expression. A lot of forced indentation and absence of braces, and absence of sigils makes it harder to read Python scripts. However that's not the only problem with Python. If you are scripting you want the regular `unix_command` command thingy to work fine. More-so you want to read the output of that thing using a syntax like my @command_output = `unix_command`; You also want heredocs. And you want multiline anonymous functions. I could go on and on. But Python seems to be more like a tool trying to compete with Java than Perl.