How to sell Python to your boss?

[James C. Ahlstrom]

Petri Mikael Kuittinen wrote:

> rudimentary, but easy-to-use, GUI for the multi-player game. My boss
> otherwise agreed with my idea ("it would be really useful..."), but he
> doesn't want me to do the prototype implementation using Python. He
> said I must use a program language that all the other programmers in
> our R&D department understand. Well, that leaves only one choice: C

Another thought.  Agree to write it in C, but with a useful
free library add-on utility which is also written in C 
called "Python".

Jim Ahlstrom