Medium to Large Scale Python Deployments

[Kragen Sitaker]

"Domenic R. Merenda" <dom at edgereport.put_a_c_o_m_here> writes:
>    I am running a home-grown Enterprise Resource Planning system, written
> entirely in Python, to manage the operations and manufacturing aspects of a
> medium ($100,000,000 annual sales) manufacturing organization.

That's fascinating!

>    We have found Python to be a robust solution for the problems we've
> encountered to date, and pass approximately half a gigabyte of daily data
> through our custom systems.  We have merged the AS/400 (Python 2.1, soon to
> go to 2.2.1) with midrange (PIII700) PC's to create an interesting
> heterogenous environment.

Are you running Python natively on the AS/400?  How hard was that?
Does it support dynamic loading of extensions?