Python is the second best language for everything. Even with its warts (which any language gets after 30 years), it's a very solid, defensible choice. However,

Python is the second best language for everything. Even with its warts (which any language gets after 30 years), it's a very solid, defensible choice. However, it does not have a great concurrency story relative to languages that were built concurrency first (Go, Erlang), and it's fair to acknowledge that.