Why is this loved by everyone?

I felt the same at first but in practice you'll be conforming to some form of indentation rules in other languages if you do any sort of collaboration.

It's easy to learn
It has an easy to read syntax
It has a library for everything
It's flexible
It's not JavaScript
It has good tooling
It's portable
It isn't a memory hog (compared to node.js or the JVM)

It's what I use when I need something more robust than a shell script but don't care much about performance. It's the Chad of scripting languages, basically.

The only reason why I use and have learned to be proficient in Python is because it's the scripting language you use for writing scripts in Blender 3D. Had Blender opted to use any other scripting language, that's what I would've learned. That said, I really do use Python for a lot of automation tasks, I'm quite married to it at this point.

Numpy, Scipy, h5py, cartopy, matplotlib and IPython. Those cover 98% of my data analysis requirements.

I wrote a 200 line Python script last month that saved me six months of mouse clicking drudgery. Programming is all about using computers to make your life easier or better, and Python excels at this for a ton of stuff.
>friendly syntax, including some great tricks for compact but readable code (list comprehensions chief among them)
>tons of libraries
>open source
>preinstalled or one command away on any modern *nix
>easy to punt most forms of hard computation to a C library
>doesn't require an IDE, but severalbare available anyways
>possible, albeit not trivial, to wrap up into a single binary per platform for distribution

If you only know one language aside from your OS's shell, Python is a great place to start.

Stockholm syndrome justification

>the language is trying to tell me how to format my code
The language is telling you to format your code correctly. Any not-shit editor will help manage it for you, so it's only noticeable if you're an autist that insists on scrunching everything into one line.

Emacs in its default configuration literally induces RSI in long term users. Use a config kit like Spacemacs if you don't want to spend six months beating it into shape by hand hacking configuration files.

Bait or retard?

It's brainlet friendly.