For a lot of users, Python is its own platform. As a so called "scientific" programmer, when I'm programming, I'm very much "inside" Python. I don't need to kno

For a lot of users, Python is its own platform. As a so called "scientific" programmer, when I'm programming, I'm very much "inside" Python. I don't need to know or care very much about the details of the platform that it's running on. I start up my IDE or Jupyter and the rest of the system melts away. This may be because Python lends itself to bring used in integrated environments such as Jupyter.