Python Experience from a Julia Perspective

I wrote Python scripts a long time ago. For the past year, I’ve mainly used Julia for my scripting needs. I have a bunch of scripts I need to share with other people and I don’t want to require people to have Julia installed, so I am trying to rewrite my scripts to Python.

Here are some of my observations about using Python again after primarily using Julia for my scripting needs.

First Impressions

The built in Python REPL is very bare bones compared to what you get out of the box after…