Using python as primary language

[sturlamolden]

On 8 Nov, 08:52, Michel Albert <exh... at gmail.com> wrote:


> In our company we are looking for one language to be used as default
> language. So far Python looks like a good choice (slacking behind
> Java). A few requirements that the language should be able cope with
> are:
>
> * Database access to Sybase.
>   This seems to be available for python, but the windows-binaries for
> the library
>   are not available. Self-Compiling them proved to be non-trivial (As
> always
>   on windows).
> * Easy GUI creation.
>   Solved using PyQt.
> * Cross Platform (Linux + Windows).
>   Again, PyQt, solves this
> * Easy deployment.
>   Solved using py2exe + innosetup
> * Charting (Histograms, Line charts, bar charts, pie charts, ...)
>   I am currently looking into PyQwt, which looks promising.
> * Report generation with GUI support
>   reportlab + rml?


These are all library issues, and has nothing to do with the language!

Besides that, if Visual Studio and .NET is what you want, you can
always use IronPython.