  Python is a popular, widely used, and general-purpose programming language.
In spite of its ever-growing community, researchers have not performed much
analysis on Python's topics, trends, and technologies which provides insights
for developers about Python community trends and main issues. In this article,
we examine the main topics related to this language being discussed by
developers on one of the most popular Q\&A websites, Stack Overflow, as well as
temporal trends through mining 2461876 posts. To be more useful for the
software engineers, we study what Python provides as the alternative to popular
technologies offered by common programming languages like Java. Our results
indicate that discussions about Python standard features, web programming, and
scientific programming. Programming in areas such as mathematics, data science,
statistics, machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and so forth.
are the most popular areas in the Python community. At the same time, areas
related to scientific programming are steadily receiving more attention from
the Python developers.
