What makes Python a good scripting language?

Question

If you need to choose a scripting language, why did you choose Python?

Answer 1

Since it has clean and flexible syntax, it is fast, well-documented, well-connected with C, has many libraries, it is intuitive and not perl.

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In this short article you can see many possibilities and elegance. Especially things like defaultdict make your code much shorter, more readable, and more maintainable.