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human
Why is Python better for Machine Learning than C++?

I am in the process of learning-doing a lot of self-study-and nearly all the books on machine learning/AI say you should know python to use this book.  Am I missing something?  What makes python better than C++?  They are both object based.
gpt
>What makes python better than C++? They are both object based.

It has nothing to do with which language is better.  Python is a popular language in academia because it is easy to learn, easy to install, and quick to get some proof-of-concept working.  Significant effort has been put into making ML libraries both performant and easy to use from Python so that's what people gravitated towards as interest picked up.

Most (if not all) big ML libraries have C++ bindings.  You can absolutely use them from C++ if you really want to.  It's also *significantly* more complex and verbose for no real gain unless you're running massive models at large scale.