Is Python a Good Tool for Science?

The software has been kind of thought of is like a tool you used to get there, but it's not necessarily a tool that you fix or improve along the way. i think one of the things that we've been trying to do is kind of break that pattern a little bit and think of that like the whole ecosystem of tools that we're working with is improvable. Ye I'll start by talking about how x aray was born out of an elevator pitch for pittont. And then maybe give us some of e maybe gives us the story for X-ray as well.