When is python to appropriate language to pick? For almost every science or engineering domain, python has some of the best in class libraries available (eithe

When is python to appropriate language to pick? For almost every science or engineering domain, python has some of the best in class libraries available (either native or as bindings to the standard C libraries everybody uses). It is more likely than not a plug in or scripting language for the engineering desktop application you use. It will let you do everything from interactive data analysis to web development, to scripting and devops, to cutting edge ML research in the same language using mature and battle tested tools. This is extra nice if you are combining many different domains, like doing Machine Learning and Computer Vision on GIS data and presenting the results on an interactive web site. Especially if you're ambition in life isn't to be a professional programmer, but rather a professional that uses programming to do his job, then learning just one language is very enticing and python is probably the language that is most likely do have everything you need to get the job done, no matter what that job might be.