So far I've mostly used it for writing short text file re-formatting scripts. Previously I would have used Perl, but I find Python much more readable and maintainable for this sort of thing, and only very slightly more verbose.
I'm currently writing a play-by-mail game turn processing engine using Python, SQLite and wxPython. It's easily my most ambitious project so far. Simon Hibbs -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list