[slurgfest]

I am puzzled at how arrays are hard to use in Python? I cannot understand how you could be 'banging your head' against Python's array syntax unless you are just new to Python.

If you want to use Java (e.g.: you know it already and don't like learning other things), who cares? Why is this an issue where you have to challenge other people's opinions of Java? Use it if you want to.