Still doing many things in Python is a bit more laborious (no surprise and not a drawback of Python, it is general purpose language) than in Matlab/Octave. Plus

Still doing many things in Python is a bit more laborious (no surprise and not a drawback of Python, it is general purpose language) than in Matlab/Octave. Plus learning curve is lower for Matlab/Octave, after long years of not using Matlab I've taken some ML course on Coursera that was using Octave and I was able to be productive very quickly.