popular programs made in python?

eryksun () eryksun at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 20:58:48 EDT 2011


On Tuesday, March 29, 2011 10:32:26 AM UTC-4, Neil Alt wrote:
> i mean made with python only, not just a small part of python.

I think it's uncommon for an application to be programmed entirely in Python. It's common to use C/C++ to accelerate performance critical parts of the code. I don't see that as a weakness of Python. The developer uses whichever tools work best for the task at hand.

Calibre is a popular e-book manager/converter created by Kovid Goyal. It's mostly written in Python, with some C extensions for speedups (e.g. SQLite database access) and interfacing to OS APIs for fonts, USB devices, etc:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kovid/calibre/trunk/files





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