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  • Python Success Stories

    ...Java. I took a look at each of those. I ruled out Tcl because I felt Python's syntax was much cleaner and because I had heard that large Tcl programs could be hard to maintain. Java had the disadvantage of requiring compilation with each change in the code, and the ability to run code in any recent browser was of no use for this project. Java's verbose syntax as compared to Python was also a point against it. Python was just as portable as Java and a much easier to learn and use language. I'd a...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 13-Feb-2003

    ...Java modules May be compiled to Java byte code for use in any JVM String and regular expression processing Extensive XML and web services support HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP, telnet, and other IP protocols HTML, MIME, base64, binhex, uuencode, and other internet data handling GUI development and multimedia services Unit testing, profiling, and documentation generation Restricted execution security option Available third party modules for database access, math, 3D modeling,...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 9-Feb-2004

    ...Java modules May be compiled to Java byte code for use in any JVM String and regular expression processing Extensive XML and web services support HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP, telnet, and other IP protocols HTML, MIME, base64, binhex, uuencode, and other internet data handling GUI development and multimedia services Unit testing, profiling, and documentation generation Available third party modules for database access, scientific computation, visualization, 3D modeling, imag...

  • ...Java, is still very much worth supporting, and Andrew Kuchling has put support for Jython on his agenda. The PSF will continue to support Jython going forward.

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Java and Jython, the Java-based implementation of the Python programming language, were both considered as well, but were not chosen because of the added complexity introduced by either approach, without appreciable added value. Ultimately, Python's flexibility, coding speed, solution quality, and libraries made it the language of choice for this endeavor. The LoveIntros project consumed approximately four months of full-time development work, with one developer working on the Python code, and o...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 29-Jul-2003

    ...Java modules May be compiled to Java byte code for use in any JVM String and regular expression processing Extensive XML and web services support HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP, telnet, and other IP protocols HTML, MIME, base64, binhex, uuencode, and other internet data handling GUI development and multimedia services Unit testing, profiling, and documentation generation Available third party modules for database access, math, 3D modeling, image processing, LDAP, WebDAV, jabber, MIDI,...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Java and Windows' COM interface made this possible by enabling access to the Web services from all major client application environments such as Visual Basic (VB), Visual Basic for Applications (VBA as used in Word, Excel, and Access), Delphi, C++, Java, C# and others. These not only hide the protocol level from the application programmer, but also provide the key to enabling security and fail-over solutions. Web services standards are still in the planning stage, and it is not at all clear whic...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Java. But our impression of Ruby was that it was too immature at the time and Java can often be unpleasant to work with. Project Results It is imperative that we provide 24/7/365 availability to our clients, as WordStream is an online Software as a Service solution used by people all around the world. Given that prerequisite, Python has performed magnificently. Python has proven to be a very powerful and flexible language in terms of both parsing and data manipulation. There are a host of favo...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Java for some time, but its potential benefits seemed to come at the cost of a steep learning curve, and an overall increase in development time. In contrast, Python appeared to offer the prospect of having both clarity and productivity at the same time. And if we ever needed to make use of Java's class libraries there was always Jython, an implementation of Python for the JVM. The increasing number of Python books being published testified to the language's growing popularity, and the number of...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Java and C and came to the conclusion that 1 line of Python is 10 lines of Java or 100 lines of C. Developers write code at basically a constant rate so I chose Python which was (and is) the highest level language I've ever seen that is also flexible enough to be generally useful." Architecture From the beginning, Timesheet was designed and implemented as a web application. It uses a three-tiered web application architecture with separate layers for web presentation, business logic, and d...

  • 2007-03-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Java Package name for Jython RESOLVED, that the org.python.* Java package name be reserved for use by the Jython project. Approved 7-0-0. 7   Renewing the Advocacy Coordinator Position As the Board has not yet received a proposal, a decision was deferred until a proposal (or contract or work plan) has been received. Discussion: D. Ascher: I guess I feel like it's not a great relationship -- we asked for X, and really got Y. Whether Y is good or not isn't really the issue. S. ...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 9-Mar-2005

    ...Java, and Visual Basic, and can significantly increase programmer productivity. It is often characterized as an agile language that promotes speedy development. Python is often used in large system development to decrease software costs, mitigate risk, and meet aggressive schedules. The language is the basis of applications used by tens of thousands of companies and organizations worldwide, and its user base is growing rapidly. Additional information and downloads are available at w...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Java or PHP. The integration capabilities of those languages are not as strong, and their threading support is harder to use. Python is impressive as an object-oriented rapid application development language. One of Python's key strengths lies in its ability to produce results quickly without sacrificing maintainability of the resulting code. In ForecastWatch.com, Python was used for prototyping as well, and those prototypes were able to evolve cleanly into the production code without requiring...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Java. As a result, Python is almost executable pseudo-code. Python speeds the development cycle. Since Python code is compiled to byte code on the fly by the interpreter, the development cycle is just "edit-and-execute" instead of "edit-compile-execute". In practice, this can save substantial amounts of time. Python facilitates debugging. Python's detailed tracebacks reveal the cause of problems very quickly, usually immediately upon inspection. While there are debuggers av...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Java and some on Visual Basic, MTS, and ASP. Concurrently, we happened to be using Python to prototype some of the functional requirements for the web-deployed business applications we were developing. It wasn't long before we found ourselves comparing our Python prototypes favorably to the actual systems we were developing. Python was a much more productive way to work, and it seemed to result in at least as good an end product. Unfortunately, our client never seriously considered Python simply...

  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...Java). Here, we are once again looking at improving performance above all. The other possibility is to simply improve the synchronicity between system and scripting languages. A good example is JPython, a Python dialect that is seamlessly integrated with Java [JPython]. 4. How Will it Change the World? Just as mass literacy has had a pervasive effect on western society, arguably leading to modern western democracy, the long-term effects of mass computer literacy on society will be...

  • PSF-2005-001 - SimpleXMLRPCServer.py allows unrestricted traversal

    ...Java.</p> <p>The Python development team has discovered a flaw in the SimpleXMLRPCServer library module which can give remote attackers access to internals of the registered object or its module or possibly other modules. The flaw only affects Python XML-RPC servers that use the register_instance() method to register an object without a _dispatch() method. Servers using only register_function() are not affected.</p> <p>On vulnerable XML-RPC servers, a remote attacker ma...

  • PSF-2006-001 - Buffer overrun in repr() for UCS-4 encoded unicode strings

    ...Java.</p> <p>The Python development team has discovered a flaw in the repr() implementation of Unicode string objects which can lead to execution of arbitrary code due to an overflow in a buffer allocated with insufficient size.</p> <p>The flaw only manifests itself in Python builds configured to support UCS-4 Unicode strings (using the --enable-unicode=ucs4 configure flag). This is still not the default, which is why the vulnerability should not be present in most Python...

  • Python Humor

    ...Java: Python: You create a gun module, a gun class, a foot module and a foot class. After realising you can't point the gun at the foot, you pass a reference to the gun to a foot object. After the foot is blown up, the gun object remains alive for eternity, ready to shoot all future feet that may happen to appear. Java: You find that Microsoft and Sun have released imcompatible class libraries both implementing Gun objects. You then find that although there are plenty of feet objects implemente...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Java, PHP, PL/SQL, and Ruby) but this was the first use of Python. Like Perl and Ruby, Python includes the standard libraries that were required by this project. Python was chosen for its readability and ease of use. Implementation Most of the brutal load was handled by the Postfix mail system. All requests were received by email, which is asynchronous and thus avoids the above-mentioned limitations of synchronous processing. Suzanne was in charge of rotating mailboxes to keep them at a manage...

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