Who uses Python?

DaveM asma61 at dsl.pipex.com
Mon Jun 4 18:08:54 EDT 2007


On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:37:10 -0700, walterbyrd <walterbyrd at iname.com> wrote:

>I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers?
>
>I have heard of some DBAs who use a lot of python.
>
>I suppose some scientists. I think python is used in bioinformatics. I
>think some math and physics people use python.
>
>I suppose some people use python to learn "programming" in general.
>Python would do well as a teaching language.
>
>I would think that python would be a good language for data analysis.
>
>Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art?

I'm a hobbyist. No, that's not right - I run a course and I learnt the
language writing a program to allocate tutors and students to tutorial
groups over a three day course I run. I don't know what that makes me - and,
no, I don't want any helpful answers!

DaveM



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