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by tomchristie 2939 days ago
Hell yes - it's an incredibly productive language, and the Web frameworks for it (Flask & Django in particular) are really nicely mature.

For fast Web App development it's a superb language choice.

Not so good if you wanted to write a super-high-throughput proxy service, but asyncio & ASGI is starting to change things there too.

> Any major sites running python?

Instagram is probably the biggest headliner these days, but there's stacks of others.