> is there something about Python ... that makes it especially suitable[?]
Yes. Python has the best collection of sufficiently user-friendly and fast modules for machine learning. Other languages tend to have fast, friendly, or many modules, but not all three. I suppose R is somewhat competitive on those aspects, but R isn't a great general-purpose language.
Yes. Python has the best collection of sufficiently user-friendly and fast modules for machine learning. Other languages tend to have fast, friendly, or many modules, but not all three. I suppose R is somewhat competitive on those aspects, but R isn't a great general-purpose language.