This is a letter I sent out at work a few months back, trying to sell my boss on using python for some internal projects. There's a lot of politics involved, it talks about stuff that are internal to the company, it's obscenely long, and it's definitely not as technical as it should be. But Kyle keeps pestering me to write up something about the basics of Python, and this fits that bill.
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