Advantages of Python over Java?

[MrRoboSteve]

When teams ask me which programming language to use, my first answer is "the one your mentor knows how to program."

Teams without a strong programming mentor, in nearly all cases, should stick with one of the three officially supported languages.

Why?

For the sort of programming most teams do, there's no material difference in difficulty between those languages and Python.

There is a much larger support ecosystem online for the supported languages.

You can ask other teams for help with the supported languages.

Most events have CSAs who know the supported languages.

I wholeheartedly support the teams that have brought additional language support to the FRC world. Those teams also have the people infrastructure to be independent.