Python is GOOD!

I'm becoming a devotee of the programming language Python (www.python.org). I first heard about Python in the early 90's and wasn't too impressed because I was using awk and Perl for most of the script stuff that I needed to do to munge my data. Recently I was talking with a colleague whom I respect a lot and he kept pushing me to check it out again. So I started working through the tutorial that comes packaged with the code on a long road trip and was truly impressed with how easy it was to get usable programs up and running quickly. Then, last week, I was sent a link to a brand new issue of a major informatics journal that was entirely devoted to the use of Python in neuroscience. Okay, okay, I'm sold. So I'm diving into that when I'm not frantically busy with EVERYTHING else I need to do.