Python has the advantage that everybody sort of knows it is bad and slow, which is an important trait for a glue language. This increases the incentive to do the right thing: call a library written in C or Fortran or something.

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wiseowise 11 hours ago | parent [-]

It might be slow, but it is definitely not bad. In the contrary, it is a great language. The closest to pseudocode you can get in a mainstream.

	▲	1313ed01 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That used to be true, but much of modern python code I see looks nothing like pseudocode. That advantage was lost around version 3, if not even before that.