Your phrasing actually did very much imply that Python the language was intended ("directed") for these tasks. >Python 3 (and later versions of Python 2) has b

Your phrasing actually did very much imply that Python the language was intended ("directed") for these tasks. >Python 3 (and later versions of Python 2) has been more directed (in the past decade) towards number crunching I don't know where "more directed" means anything but planned/intended e.g. you are saying here that the Python core devs have been building a language as a data analysis tool. (This is obviously up to some interpretations and it's fair to say some poeple won't read it this way at all). It sounds like you mean to say the growth/use has been in data analysis due to the Python-based tools that have grown up around the language, the ecosystem. I would agree with you.