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  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction Consultants naturally try to provide their customers with the best solutions for a problem. Sometimes this means exploring new areas together with the customer or directing the project into a solution space that better fits the problem than the usual "buzzword-compliant" approaches. We've seen these fail too often, misleading the project into solving problems relating to the selected technology, rather than meeting the original project plan. Pyt...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories The University of St Andrews, founded in 1411, is Scotland's oldest university Zoom in Introduction The IT Services department at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, develops and maintains software systems used in a variety of capacities throughout the university. I had several years of experience working with Perl when I took my first serious look at Python back in 1999. Our team's projects were becoming bigger and more complex, and it was obvious that we needed t...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction Strakt is a Swedish company which specializes in developing scalable and secure products for collaboration in workflow intensive workplaces. Our vision is to empower professionals to collaborate in an enjoyable, intuitive, and efficient way that is tailored to their and their organisations' needs, while simultaneously developing and maintaining digitally stored organisational memory. In 2001, AB Strakt embarked on a large software development project aimed ...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction AFNIC is the registry of the French .fr top-level internet domain. For many years, registration rules in .fr were very strict. On May 11th, 2004, the rules changed to a more liberal model, allowing many registrations that were not possible before. As a consequence of this change, the registry was faced with receiving a potentially unmanageable burst of requests. This is a problem known as a "landrush" faced by every DNS registry which changes its ...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction TEMPEST, a.s. is one of leading system integrators in Slovakia and surrounding countries. TEMPEST has long-term experience in the area of IT service management (ITSM). ITSM is aimed at fulfilling strategic business objectives in order to allow flexible reaction to market demand, to connect the IT capabilities with the business needs, and to enable planning, management and measurement of the quality of IT services. Many large organizations have different tec...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction When one of the French Government Agencies was looking for a way to overcome their growing data quality problems, they chose to use the Test&Go software suite from QualiControl, along with associated consultancy, to help them develop a solution. The problem was the following: every year, over a period of one month, more than 800,000 French companies sent their employee year-end reports in electronic form. More than 35% of these reports had errors or exc...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction Tribon Solutions develops, markets and supports CAD/CAM/CIM software solutions, with the mission of increasing overall efficiency in the maritime industry. For more than 30 years the company has provided shipyards, design agents and maritime equipment suppliers with new ways to improve cost efficiency, quality and performance. Our solutions are proven to generate time savings and to increase speed to market. With its head office in Sweden and offices in the...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction TTTech, founded in 1998, focuses on developing a technology for safety-critical real-time systems. Our central technology is the Time-Triggered Protocol (TTP), a communication protocol used in embedded systems for distributed fault-tolerant applications, such as drive-by-wire and fly-by-wire vehicles. For TTP, we provide chip models for implementing the necessary hardware in silicon, services to customers using the technology, and a broad range of tools. ...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories This article was previously published on Builder.com Introduction Software engineers have long told their bosses and clients that they can have software "fast, cheap, or right," as long as they pick any two of those factors. Getting all three? Forget about it! But United Space Alliance (USA), NASA's main shuttle support contractor, had a mandate to provide software that meets all three criteria. Their experience with Python told them NASA's demands were within...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Background Successful information search is mission-critical. It increases worker efficiency and saves money. On an external web site, it also increases customer satisfaction and helps retain users to the web site. The average company can waste millions of dollars because its employees cannot locate and retrieve the information that is needed for their jobs. Infoseek released the original version of Ultraseek Server on March 31, 1997. It was built by wrapping Infoseek's...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction Wing IDE is a commercial integrated development environment for the Python programming language. Wing provides developers with a full-featured source editor, debugger, code browser, and many other tools specifically designed for use with Python. Wing works with all forms of Python, whether running as a stand-alone app, under a web server, or in a custom embedded scripting environment. Several GUI layers (wxPython, PyQt, PyGTK, and Tkinter) are supported, as...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction WordStream is a provider of keyword management solutions for continuously optimizing and expanding PPC and SEO efforts, involving large numbers of keywords. WordStream provides a scalable, private, online keyword workbench, for conducting keyword discovery, keyword suggestion, keyword research, keyword grouping, keyword organization, search marketing workflow, and for turning research into action. WordStream has been in development since 2007, and is devel...

  • About the Python Web Site

    About the Python Web Site Use the Python logo on your own pages. Reporting Problems To report a bug or to suggest an enhancement, please use the pythondotorg issue tracker. If you're reporting a problem (a broken link, typo, formatting glitch, etc), please include the URL of the affected page. Note that this address is only for problems with the main python.org website. For problems with PyPI please use the PyPI bug tracker. Joining the python.org Team This website is maintained by voluntee...

  • Python Community

    Python Community The Python Community The Python Software Foundation and the global Python community welcome and encourage participation by everyone. Our community is based on mutual respect, tolerance, and encouragement, and we are working to help each other live up to these principles. To get you started, we've put together a list of resources: Diversity Statement: We want our community to be more varied, expressed in our diversity statement; whoever you are, and whatever your background,...

  • Python Community Awards

    Python Community Awards Python Software Foundation Community Service Awards are given to members of the community who significantly improve the Foundation's fulfillment of its mission. Python Software Foundation Distinguished Service Awards are given to members of the community whose long-term efforts have significantly influenced and shaped the Python community.

  • Frank Willison Memorial Award

    Frank Willison Memorial Award Contributions can encompass so much more than code. A successful software community requires time, dedication, communication, and education as well as elegant code. With the Frank Willison Memorial Award, we hoped to acknowledge all of those things. —Tim O'Reilly The Frank Willison Memorial Award for Contributions to the Python Community is given annually to a person judged to have made an outstanding contribution to the Python community. The award was ...

  • A Journey to Python

    A Journey to Python by Alex Martelli, 2006 recipient of the Frank Willison Award After a quarter century of experience in programming (once as a sideline of my main job as a hardware designer, at Texas Instruments and IBM Research, but as my main job for over half that time, at IBM Research and Cad.Lab/think3), I finally stumbled upon Python in 1999. This was thanks to the kind nagging of a friend and colleague whose judgment I respected and to whom I still feel grateful for his insistence (A...

  • PSF Distinguished Service Awards

    PSF Distinguished Service Awards Contents Introduction 2024 2022 2021 2018 2017 2015 2014 2012 Introduction Building on the ideals of the Foundation's Community Service Award, the Distinguished Service Award is an offer of recognition for sustained exemplary contributions to the Python community. The Foundation's highest award is given for actions which carry significant impact that shapes the Python world, whether through contributions of code, efforts in community action, or otherwise. ...

  • Diversity

    Diversity Diversity Statement The Python Software Foundation and the global Python community welcome and encourage participation by everyone. Our community is based on mutual respect, tolerance, and encouragement, and we are working to help each other live up to these principles. We want our community to be more diverse: whoever you are, and whatever your background, we welcome you. Diversity Appendix We have created this diversity statement because we believe that a diverse Python communit...

  • Internet Relay Chat

    Internet Relay Chat There are several Python-related channels on the libera IRC network. All channels are available by connecting to Internet Relay Chat server Libera.Chat. The #python channel is for all discussion about the Python language, ecosystem, and community. You can get immediate help with programming questions. You will need to first register your nickname with Libera, using the nickname setup instructions (https://libera.chat/guides/registration). Spanish speakers can use the #pyar ...

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