Just a very general question; what do you think of Python ? What's the main strengths/weaknesses of the language (say, versus JAVA) ?

It has a very simple syntax and'll do anything you throw at it. I'd say it's a little simpler and easier than even Java, but then I haven't used Python as much.

 

Being completely interpreted (no compilation to bytecode) also makes Python development a little less irritating.

you can compile python for faster processing once your finished though.

Just a very general question; what do you think of Python ? What's the main strengths/weaknesses of the language (say, versus JAVA) ?

 

Python is a nice modern dynamic object oriented scripting language. Compared to it languages like Java feel overly verbose, tedious, and poorly designed.

 

Python sports a lot of features that Java lacks, among them lambdas / higher order functions, list comprehensions, and multiple inheritence. That's not to mention its dynamic nature strips away the language boilerplate and just lets you get stuff done.

 

The indentation sensitive syntax is pretty spiffy.