Other differences are largely cosmetic: Python prefers snake_case for functions and variables (because snakes), whereas Java uses camelCase. On the whole, a page of Python is much less daunting ...

Python continues to shake Java from its spot as one of the top ... This month Java declined by 4.72 percentage points compared to its rating a year ago while Python was up by 1.9 percentage points.

But this month Python has clocked up a rating of 8.5 percent in the Tiobe index, its highest ever score, up 2.77 percentage points compared with this time last year.