In the words of its author, "the other scripting language" (other than
Perl, that is). Python's design is notably clean, elegant, and well
thought through; it tends to attract the sort of programmers who find
Perl grubby and exiguous. Python's relationship with Perl is rather
like the BSD community's relationship to Linux - it's the smaller party
in a (usually friendly) rivalry, but the average quality of its
developers is generally conceded to be rather higher than in the larger
community it competes with. There's a Python resource page at
http://www.python.org. See also Guido.