Same here, engineer with no formal CS training. A long time ago I would write macros with Visual Basic. When it came time to jump to a more robust language tha

Same here, engineer with no formal CS training. A long time ago I would write macros with Visual Basic. When it came time to jump to a more robust language that is also cross-platform, Python was the obvious choice. It's readable, easy to learn, has great support and the PyPI library is huge.