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NASA uses Python...
... so does Rackspace, Industrial Light and Magic, AstraZeneca, Honeywell, and many others.
What they are saying...
We knew we needed a software load balancer to meet a customer commitment to have their site up and running.
We had this hacked-together version that somebody had written in Perl in a week, but it fell over continuously. And we needed something that we could put together that would replace it but that also would be maintainable over the long run.
Since then, we've changed how we use Python a ton internally. We have lots more production software written in Python. We've basically reimplemented all our production service monitoring in Python and also our production software management infrastructure for a significant amount of what we run.
-- Dan Kelley, director of application integration at ITA Software, quoted in eWeek.
Using Python For...
- Web Programming
- CGI, Zope, Django, TurboGears, XML
- Databases
- ODBC, MySQL
- GUI Development
- wxPython, tkInter, PyGtk, PyQt
- Scientific and Numeric
- Bioinformatics, Physics
- Education
- pyBiblio, Software Carpentry Course
- Networking
- Sockets, Twisted
- Software Development
- Buildbot, Trac, Roundup, IDEs
- Game Development
- PyGame, PyKyra, 3D Rendering
Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code.
Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, Amiga, Palm Handhelds, and Nokia mobile phones. Python has also been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines.
Python is distributed under an OSI-approved open source license that makes it free to use, even for commercial products.
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) holds and protects the intellectual property rights behind Python, underwrites the PyCon conference, and funds grants and other projects in the Python community.
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