I've read various articles, blog posts, etc on Python: All of which list it's pros and cons, though they tend to either say it's slow or good. It's said to be a good beginners language: And I whole heartily agree. Any programmer can admit Python is a great beginner language. It sets a good example for OOP and encourages people not to use D&D Programs. But, alas, it is said to be bad as well.
Python not for game development? Panda3D, Unity of Command, Frets on Fire, Toontown, EVE Online
But, a lot of people argue that you should not use Python because of speed. Some say it's too slow for anything, others say it's good at some things.
So, my question is: Is Python underestimated? From what I can tell, it seems to be a fairly good language, and it being so simple to pick up makes it a great language. Google Chrome is partially written in Python. Some of Linux is written in Python.
Obviously Python would not be capable of a high-end Call of Duty clone, but really, the only language suited for that is C/C++ simply due to it's speed.
So, what is Python's limits? Is it as good/bad as people make it out to be? I recently finished a programming tutorial series on Python 2.7.2, and it's really got me into Python.
A lot of programmers start with Python now-adays, but they tend to only start with Python.
I'm not sure if it's true, but I've heard of some viruses being written in Python as well. I've heard you can do a man-in-the-middle attack with Python, using a certain library. I wouldn't like to do this; not only because it's illegal, but because I believe there are other languages better suited toward this. Also, I'm not so sure it'd be easy to cover your tracks in Python.
Python is also meant to be quite good at making the GUI's, and letting another language like C or C++ do some of the heavy work.
All in all, this is just to satisfy my own curiosity. In my opinion: Python is a great language! I often use it to test some ideas for game development quickly. It's fast at prototyping ideas, I'll give it that.
Also, I'd like to point out that Gimp was written in C/C++, and it's quite slow at responding a lot of times. I find that writing GUI's in Python is actually quite fast(for the coding of it and for the response time). So I guess some of it depends on how efficient your program is.