Why is Python a good first scripting language?

[Guyon Morée]

...and the number of reactions you got on your question here should have be
a big vote on it's own, too : D


"Tim Teebken" <teebken at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you all for the responses.  I'm leaning toward Python, still open to
> Ruby.  As Tim P. suggested in this thread, now the thing to do is fire up
> Python and see how it handles some common tasks.  Certainly I've read and
> heard enough to think Python is a good choice based on the given criteria.
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