Ask HN: What made you learn Python?

Tried the Django tutorial and loved the framework.

It was much nicer than Perl in that I could actually read and understand code I wrote 6+ months back.

Using Blender

In high school I wanted to make a Twitter bot that tweeted about the weather everyday. I had an easy time with Python's Libraries / Ecosystem.

I work in the aerospace industry as an embedded software engineer. There are a great deal of engineers in the department that use Ruby over Python (long story so please don't ask). However, I find that Python shines in it's community of contributors and users. There are tons of free online documentation, resources, forums, tutorials and even free courses.

Other than the above, my mentors have stressed the advantages of automating my tasks now rather than later. This was the main drive in getting on board with learning a scripting language quite quickly. I initially tried Ruby and it didn't seem like a language an embedded software engineer should be using "daily" over the alternative (the language I wanted to learn in first place) being python. I'm sure someone has an alternative opinion on that. Another main contributor at the time was the amount of time I spent scp'n files back and forth between two hosts. There's an awesome python library called paramiko that solved all the annoyances with doing this manually. Cheers~D