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Its runtime is quite a bit faster and enjoys a smaller memory footprint. It is also more amenable to "bash on steroids" scripting, and has a quarter-million canned solutions in CPAN.

PyPi has caught up with CPAN in terms of sheer number of packages, but there are still a lot of differences in what those packages cover. You might find solutions in CPAN without a counterpart in PyPi.

More narrowly, every time I deal with databases in python, I find myself missing perl's DBI, which provides the same API for all databases with a corresponding DBD. Python should get a similar universal database interface someday.