Why use Python instead of Perl?

[Afanasiy]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:49:45 -0600, "Mark McEahern"
<marklists at mceahern.com> wrote:

>[Jeff Bauer]
>> We do our own web-hosting, but I wouldn't consider a web hosting
>> service that didn't support Python.  There are just too many
>> to choose from.
>
>Jeff, this is a good point.  To amplify it, consider the fact that the Red
>Hat distro defaults to including Python.  IIRC, RH 8 comes with Python
>2.2.1.
>
>So your host may even have Python and not know it.  <wink>

But this assumes good *nix hosts use Redhat Linux.