What would you use instead of Python? It should be roughly comparable in terms of having a wide array of well-used libraries, and of course a good REPL. I've

What would you use instead of Python? It should be roughly comparable in terms of having a wide array of well-used libraries, and of course a good REPL. I've been using Python for a couple years and it's mostly joyful. It is unfortunate that not even the various containers within "collections" use a uniform naming convention, I'll give you that. And some of the scoping stuff is weird (nonlocal which nobody really uses? and seemingly-but-not constant default function arguments). But Twisted is a pretty good evented programming system, and NumPy plus multiprocessing let you process a lot of data efficiently, GIL or no. I cannot agree that "the core libraries won't take you too far"--they've taken me farther than the comparable bits in any other language.