[gdl]

I'm amazed that Python had about 20 times as many entries as either Perl or Ruby. I realize they each have their own niches and that Python tends to be the current language of choice for a lot of general-purpose weekend hacking, but I wouldn't have expected the difference to be that overwhelming.

[nowarninglabel]

Python seems to be pretty popular for AI. This is a shot in the dark but could have something to do with the popularity of "Programming Collective Intelligence". It uses and teaches Python and is a top seller in the AI category on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596529325?ie=UTF8&tag=...

I have really enjoyed going through the examples in that book, which was the first time I did any AI (although one might argue it's light on the AI side) type stuff since doing some Lisp stuff way long ago.

[noahlt]

Norvig's Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach also has Python code examples.

[gte910h]

Oh wow, do you know what edition started doing that?