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[Greg Lindstrom]

Mage Wrote:
I would be surprised if there were more than five python jobs in my
country but have to look around.

I Reply:
It's not quite that bad in Arkansas (USA), but when I was hired to help
start a new IT department I insisted on using Python and my employer
agreed to try it.  I now have over 15,000 lines of code running in
production and the CEO of the company says he has "six or seven" more
projects for me to write (with huge cost saving potential for the
company).  We're running on GenToo Linux using a Postgres database and
PHP for our web development.  We've automated about 25% of our day to
day business and are looking to expand!  I've never had more fun
writing code, and I've been writing code for over 20 years.

Would it be possible to talk to your supervisor and convince them to
allow you to use Python?  Start small, with a little project.  When you
show them that Python "works" and that they will be able to understand
the code, I'm guessing they will let you do more.  Before you know it,
you're coding everything in Python.

Best of luck,
--greg