java or python better programming language ?

From the practical perspective, Java is generally accepted as a programming language. It's widely used in all sorts of development. Desktop applications, games, web applications, servers, can all be done in Java. On the other hand, for Python, while it can virtually do all what Java can, is usually referred as a scripting language instead of a programming language, which is unfair in my opinion.

Java's market penetration is also higher than Python in the reality. Java supports are not only on PCs, but also handheld devices like mobile phones. Whereas Python is still having little recognition when it comes to real world deployment and it's still having a hard way to go to the mainstream for production environment.

From the academic point of view, Java also stands firm as the language of choice because of its strict type checking, being a 100% object oriented, and the powerful but safe Java virtual machine.

In conclusion, Java makes a better programming language than Python when all personal preferences are neglected.

All depends upon what you want to do, The generic response to this question would be Java, an extremely flexible language with a cross OS compiler that is used widely throughout Internet and Visualisation Applications. Java is a nice easy to read language that is excellent to learn for the newbie, and many brilliant freeware IDE's (i.e. Eclipse, NetBeans, etc) and extremely well written documentation that exist for Java. Contrary to this Python is a language which was primarily used in a Linux environment for low level computationally demanding applications (generally scientific analysis) and as such for most of its lifetime hasnt been overly flexible, however times are changing and Python is coming to be quite a popular language is both Educational and Coroporate Environment and as with Java is completely free. Python's leap into OOP has certainly made is formidable component! however I would recommend Java as a language to learn... solely due to its flexibility and ease of use

java is more useful but python is easier to learn.