Basically you get to program computers without having to know how computation or computers work. The fact that Python is so popular is perhaps the best evidence that knowledge of computation and computers is in fact an impediment to writing programs, ironically.
That and the fact that Python has become the interface for scripting operations on a huge number of useful software libraries. Example: Pandas.
ggm•4mo ago
So many stringlike format options. Such afterthought to types...
(And yet, I do love it)