Python is better when you need to adapt your models to interface with other programs or work with the real world, but R, ...

The advantage of Python is that you can apply operations to larger datasets with hundreds, even thousands, of data points ...

In a recent write-up, [David Delony] explains how he built a Wolfram Mathematica-like engine with Python. Core to the system is SymPy for symbolic math support. [David] said being able to work ...