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People are often introduced first to Python by way of scripting

I don't believe this is true, and I don't believe it's been true for quite some time.

First encounters with Python now tend to be via frameworks, whether for web development, machine learning, data science or automation.

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It was true recently enough ago that the people writing Python code professionally were introduced to Python from a scripting entrypoint.

For non-programmers, I think it's definitely still true that "scripting" is their primary use case for Python, and when those non-programmers shift into software development jobs because they have "3 years experience" with Python, they bring all of their bad habits with them.

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