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Python’s other language features are meant to complement common use cases. Most modern object types—Unicode strings, for example—are built directly into the language.

“Python has become the most popular language of choice for learning programming in school and university,” said Ben Finkel, who is a CBT Nuggets Trainer.

Not necessarily for the data-science and machine-learning communities built around Python extensions like NumPy and SciPy, but as a general programming language.

The top programming languages that developers want to learn next are Go and Python, according to a survey by developer skills-matching platform HackerRank.

IEEE Spectrum's top programming languages for 2017 are out, and this time, Python tops the overall list.

A worker could, for example, write a Python script that scans the data in an Excel spreadsheet and finds duplicate fields.