What type of things are you interested in doing? There&#x27;s a pretty wide range of things in astronomy that lend themselves to the use of python (simulation analysis, data calibration, data display, etc.). The astropy[0] effort is creating a general-purpose package to aid in many areas. There are codes to compute how radiation transfers through gas (e.g., powderday[1]), fitting codes to observations of interstellar gas tracers (e.g., pyradexnest[2]), and so on. Many are fairly specialized (the last two, for example) and perhaps not as useful to a casual&#x2F;amateur astronomer, but things like astropy would be useful for calibrating images from CCD cameras, or computing when things are visible in the sky.<p>If you reply with more specifics of what you&#x27;re after, I can try to provide more relevant examples.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.astropy.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.astropy.org&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;powderday.readthedocs.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;powderday.readthedocs.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jrka&#x2F;pyradexnest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jrka&#x2F;pyradexnest</a>