The people who prefer Perl over Python are the same people who would argue for PHP over Perl or Sepples over C if the stars had been only a little different.
Python is decent, and while it could definitely be better in a lot of areas, I disagree with
>>4 that it's nothing special. That's more of a comment on the state of other modern programming languages than it is on Python itself, though.
I do agree with him (and most other people) that Gweedo should be shot.