Learning Python for no reason

[John Salerno]

notbob wrote:

> On 2008-05-12, John Salerno <johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>
>> language, I can't help but feel that I will be mostly unable to use what I 
>> learn simply because I have no reason to use it.
>
>> The *process* of learning is enough fun for me, and every now and then I do 
>> find a small use for Python that really pays off,
>
> You're contradicting yourself.  Which is it?  You can or can't use it?  
>
> I suspect the more you learn of it, the more you will be able to do with it.  I
> hope so, as I'm just doing it now, like you, for the sake of learning.  

I just meant that over the couple of years that I've been studying it,
I've had a real occasion to use it maybe three or four times. For the
most part, I don't use it regularly enough (which is why I'm in the
process of re-learning some of it, because it's been so long since I
used it).