Python is slow

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On Dec 22, 6:51 am, Lou Pecora <pec... at anvil.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> In article <mailman.5967.1229898197.3487.python-l... at python.org>,
>  "James Mills" <prolo... at shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:
>
> > In case anyone is not aware, Python is
> > also used for heavy scientific computational
> > problems, games such as Civilisation and
> > others, and I believe (correct me if I"m wrong)
> > it's also used by NASA.
>
> > --JamesMills
>

i am referring mainly to Python for web applications.

Python is slow.

> Python has become very popular in scientific computation.  You'll find
> it in use lots of places (universities, national labs, defense labs).  I
> use it for solving partial differential equations for quantum chaos
> calculations and went to C for speed up where needed using ctypes which
> is very straightforward and plays nice with numpy array/matrix
> libraries.  I've been doing scientific programming for 30 years.  Python
> with C extensions and libraries is the best approach I've ever used.  
> Calculation speed is not a problem and the code can be "tweaked" to
> increase it easily.  Programming speed is incredible.  I can get
> substantial object oriented code up and running much faster than
> anything I've ever used.
>
> --
> -- Lou Pecora