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My opinion: Python may not be the best at everything it does, but it's in the top 3-5 languages in the following areas:
It will always be a practical choice for those reasons. There are probably a lot more as well that I can't think of at the moment.
Python is popular because it's whitespace based syntax make noobs think it's easy to read. This and it's pre-installation on Linux made it popular amongst academics who embraced it for data analysis. This lead to a lot of data scientists embracing it and writing libraries for it which created a virtuous cycle in that arena.
And it's a damn shame because Python, and it's whitespace nonsense and lack of type system, is a horribly impractical language for building anything at scale.
It has optional typing
It has optional type annotations for use by linters*
Good point!