I've looked for a reason for a while, being a perl guy..
A buddy was able to replace about 2000 lines of C code with less than 100 lines of python - completely re-did a test-suite.
If you want to talk to external devices or are interested in parsing, it's awesome.
Why wait? http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/
From the official website's Whet Your App section :
Because of its more general data types Python is applicable to a much larger problem domain than Awk or even Perl, yet many things are at least as easy in Python as in those languages.
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