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Tribon uses Python...
... joining users such as 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 programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. You can learn to use Python and see almost immediate gains in productivity and lower maintenance costs.
Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, and has been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines.
Python is free to use, even for commercial products, because of its OSI-approved open source license.
The Python Software Foundation holds the intellectual property rights behind Python, underwrites the PyCon conference, and funds other projects in the Python community.
Read more, -or- download Python now
SciPy India Call for Papers
SciPy India 2009 -- Call for Presentations The first Scientific Computing with Python conference in India has announced its Call for Presentations. The conference will be held at the Technopark in Trivandrum, Kerala, India from December 12th to 17th, 2009.
RuPy '09 Conference - Schedule Posted
RuPy '09 has posted its schedule. The conference will take place November 7 & 8 in Poznan, Poland. (See the PyCon blog for more details.)
Python 2.6.4 final released
The fourth maintenance release of the 2.6 series is available.
PSF adopts Diversity Statement
On October 12, 2009, the board of the Python Software Foundation voted to adopt a Diversity Statement.
ConFoo.ca 2010 (Montreal): Call for Proposals
ConFoo.ca has posted a call for speakers. ConFoo.ca is a bilingual (English & French) web development conference covering PHP, Python, Ruby, Web standards, security, project management and many other topics. Proposals are due November 13th, 2009. Confoo.ca 2010 will take place in Montreal, Canada, from March 10th to 12th 2010.
Colorado PyUnCon 10/11-12
Python UnConference in Boulder, Colorado, USA October 11-12
SciPy India 2009
The first Scientific Computing with Python conference in India will be held from December 12th to 17th, 2009 at the Technopark in Trivandrum, Kerala, India.