Other than being annoyed at whitespace as syntax, I'm not a hater, I just don't get the fascination with Python.

I appreciate the poetry of Perl, and have programmed beautiful web services in bash & korn, and shebang gnuplot.  I write documents in troff and don't mind REXX.  Didn't find tcl any more useful years ago, but what's the big stink about Python?  I see job listings and many candidates with this as a prize & trophy on their resumes.



I guess in reality, I'm trying to personally become sold on this, I just can't find a reason.

Python is a well-designed language with a reasonably clean syntax, a comprehensive standard library, excellent included and third party documentation, widespread deployment, and the immediacy of a "scripting" style language (ie. no explicit compile step).