People often want to acquire a tool and then ask themselves what to use the tool for? I believe a tool helps you achieve a goal you already have. For example you don’t buy a screwdriver and then asking, how can i use this screwdriver?

For myself, I wanted to webscrape. And then I figured out that Python was the best way to do it (I’m not a programmer). I watched some tutorials to understand the absolute basics and one showing how to do web scraping only to try to copy and follow along, customizing it along the way. From there I understood I had already preexisting other needs that I could satisfy with Python and I learned it as I went along trying to solve my problems/needs.

That is how I learned python.