Comment by sverhagen

As a Java developer, I still like Python as a language for small to medium-sized programs, or: scripts, if your will. To me, it's just quick to iterate. The condition is, though, that I need to be able to quickly run the program to validate just all of it to work. In other words, when it comes to test coverage and longevity and reliable refactoring it gets hard. I'm sure these things are possible in Python too (I know there's testing frameworks, although it seems more of an eclectic mess than Java, which seems to have mostly settled on a small set of established testing libraries instead) but somehow the Python projects I stumbled upon have less of a testing and thus maintainability culture than the Java projects I stumbled upon. I have often wondered why that is, and I keep getting back to culture. Maybe that's too simple, and maybe the testing is just fine for business applications, and maybe my general usage of Python is too much command-like scripting, where testing and mocking is just a little harder to do...