Know of Substantial Apps Written in Python?

[Louis Luangkesorn]

Why don't you look at the Python Conference Proceedings pages off of the
www.python.org?

I'm not sure why the prejudice against using a language to drive C (or
C++ or Fortran) modules.  Paul Dubois at LLNL and others note that using
Python to drive C modules changes the way that these modules are used,
since you can code the functionality in C then use it to do real work
via Python.  It seems similar to the way the financial community will
often code algorithms C, then run them as DLL's from a spreadsheet such
as Excel or 1-2-3.  If using Python instead of directly working in C or
Fortran changes the way a module is used, wouldn't this give you insight
into the character of the language?

A few applications that have not been mentioned yet in this thread are
Reportlab, climate analysis, scientific simulations, driving astronomy
software, bioinfomatics, all of these are found in various proceedings
of the Python and Open Source conferences.  Reportlab is downloadable,
some of the others probably need something more than just your average
PC though :-)

[you can tell what I use Python for by my choice of examples :-) ]

Louis

Dry Ice wrote:

> > > Know of substantial apps written in Python?
>
> [...]
>
> > What's the definition of "substantial"?
>
> Good question.  To sharpen the point of my inquiry:
>
> As programs grow in size and complexity, both
> programmers and the results begin to show fatigue.
> Slick as Java is, for example, I have found the
> real-world results of which I'm aware so far to
> be troubling in the Windows environment.  Still
> evaluating, but it does not look good.
>
> What "substantial" is might be defined in terms
> of project length.  Perhaps something which would
> take a good programmer several months.
>
> Something as complex as a web browser might do,
> if the language in question does not merely act as
> glue for modules written in C or whatever.
>
> In the end, this is like evaluating people.  We can
> listen to what others say about a person, or what a
> person says about his or her self- or we can simply
> see how they BEHAVE.

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