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> That is not the point. The point is that AFAIK it cannot be used for
> scripting unless examples as above provided.

I finally got it. You're right :)

> Though Python is 100% self-inflicted damage. AdaCore could easily
> implement some Ada script, again, not to confuse with shell. They did
it  partially with GPR. The GPR compiler could be extended to support a
> larger variety of expressions.

GPR is a great tool. I hope Adacore will go even further in its features.

> Customers wanting Python will use Eclipse instead of GPS anyway, so that
> is not an argument either.

I /fully/ agree.