I would argue that python is actually ideally suited as a solution for many if not most things, just because there isn't large adoption in a subgenre of engineering, doesn't mean it isn't the right solution.

The primitives are there, its easy to comprehend, and there is a large amount of adoption in the scientific community outside EE.

I see lots of stuff that used to be done in things like matlab or mathmatica being done in python directly these days. At least at one of the places that I worked at, where we were a huge matlab shop for doing model design / algorithm simulation, has migrated most of their stuff to python.

Things like antenna design, RF simulation and a number of other things have a lot of of folks writing python code.