Python is a go-to language for IT automation because it’s easy to learn and has tons of helpful tools and libraries.

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

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