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Help me know why Python is the best programming language.

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Python isn't the best language, and in fact, no programming language is perfect, and it can't be considered the best. Python has both strengths and weaknesses: it's simple, development is fast, it's understandable, it's popular, it has good documentation, a community, good documentation, and plenty of courses, resources, and free tutorials. Its weaknesses include slowness, its reliance on tabs (the most annoying thing is when you paste code and it ends up inside a higher-level if or def, which can lead to logic errors), and it's interpreted (although this can be both a plus and a minus). When I see questions like these, I think of assembly language... That's where the power lies. Just look at its complexity, and all questions about the best language disappear.

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