>>539230223
>why are we using python
Because its simple and works fine enough for our purposes. We use ruby sometimes when it makes sense, too (i.e., for parsing certain kinds of webpages). You wouldn't want to run this code in production, sure, but that's not really our issue since we're running it locally anyway. Python is easy to install and has a lot of libraries built-in that make life easier.
>>539230264
It's python3, obviously.