General question from a newbie

[Gerhard Häring]

Martien van Wanrooij wrote:
> Hi,
> I must admit that I ask this question just because I am curious. I read some
> documentation about Python and it looks interesting. But I would like to
> know in what kind of situations python is used and what are the advantages
> compared to other languages.

Hmm ok. 
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq01.017.htp is not 
quite satisfactory.

What about

http://www.python.org/psa/Users.html

?

This question has also already been asked and answered many times. So if 
you don't get lots of responses now, you can as well try to search 
http://groups.google.com/ for past discussions :-)

-- Gerhard