Python

[Radical Dreamer]

I have been reading up on python programming language and have learned a few simple things about it and I am wondering if anyone knows what kind of real use it can be put to.

[antonye]

I've seen Python used a couple of times - mainly as an alternative to the native Windows Scripting Host - to ensure the cross-platform compatibility that Python has for *nix, Windows, Mac, etc.

As with all programming languages, it comes down to what you're actually trying to do with it. There's no point in using a multi-platform language when all you're ever going to do is write exclusively windows programs!

As for it's use ... well that's only limited to what you can get it to do. If you're thinking of using it to write some CGI for a web server then I personally think you'd be better off trying something like
PHP (http://www.php.net/) which has a lot more web-oriented functions already written and built into it and it's also cross-platform, so it runs on Windows, *nix, etc as well.