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  • Python Success Stories

    ...cause of its archaic character, lack of memory management, and portability issues in C-Fortran interfacing. C++ was a candidate, but ultimately not chosen because portability between compilers was still an issue in 1996, and because I considered the benefits of C++ for the small amount of compiled code in the project insufficient to compensate for the complexity of the language. Library architecture The architecture of MMTK is clearly Python-driven. To the user, it presents itself as a pure Py...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 10-Apr-2002

    ...c. Python significantly increases programmer productivity over languages such as C, C++, Java, and Visual Basic. The language's global user base is estimated in the hundreds of thousands and is growing rapidly. Key features of Python include: Object orientation, modular name spaces, exceptions, and multi-threading High-level dynamic data typing and very late binding Tight integration with C, C++, and Java modules May be compiled to Java byte code for use in any JVM String a...

  • Standard Exception Classes in Python 1.5

    ...ctions Two new intrinsic functions for class testing were introduced (since the functionality had to be implemented in the C API, there was no reason not to make it accessible to Python programmers). issubclass(D, C) returns true iff class D is derived from class C, directly or indirectly. issubclass(C, C) always returns true. Both arguments must be class objects. isinstance(x, C) returns true iff x is an instance of C or of a (direct or indirect) subclass of C. The first...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...ct include: Basistech's JMA, KMA, and Rosette, DataDirect's ODBC Connect, XLT from InXight, KeyView document filters from Verity, and Adobe Acrobat libraries. Results Python was facilitated in a cost competitive environment. Today, more than 2,500 worldwide customers have deployed Verity Ultraseek that uses the Python language. The source code, not including third party technology, is approximately 80,000 lines of Python, and less than 150,000 lines of code overall. This includes the Python-sc...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 8-Apr-2002

    ...city and power excels in a wide range of business and research development tasks, including the construction of web applications, complex business solutions, and large desktop applications. "NASA is using Python to implement a CAD/CAE/PDM repository and model management, integration, and transformation system which will be the core infrastructure for its next generation collaborative engineering environment. We chose Python because it provides maximum productivity, code that's clear an...

  • Python 2.4.4 Documentation

    ...cate previous versions What's New in Python 2.4 (changes since previous major release) Tutorial (start here) Global Module Index (for quick access to all modules) Library Reference (keep this under your pillow) Macintosh Library Modules (this too, if you use a Macintosh) Language Reference (for language lawyers) Extending and Embedding (tutorial for C/C++ programmers) Python/C API (reference for C/C++ programmers) Documenting Python (information for documentation author...

  • Python 2.5 Documentation

    ...cate previous versions What's New in Python 2.5 (changes since previous major release) Tutorial (start here) Global Module Index (for quick access to all modules) Library Reference (keep this under your pillow) Macintosh Library Modules (this too, if you use a Macintosh) Language Reference (for language lawyers) Extending and Embedding (tutorial for C/C++ programmers) Python/C API (reference for C/C++ programmers) Documenting Python (information for documentation author...

  • Python 2.5.2 Documentation

    ...cate previous versions What's New in Python 2.5 (changes since previous major release) Tutorial (start here) Global Module Index (for quick access to all modules) Library Reference (keep this under your pillow) Macintosh Library Modules (this too, if you use a Macintosh) Language Reference (for language lawyers) Extending and Embedding (tutorial for C/C++ programmers) Python/C API (reference for C/C++ programmers) Documenting Python (information for documentation author...

  • Python 2.5.3 Documentation

    ...cate previous versions What's New in Python 2.5 (changes since previous major release) Tutorial (start here) Global Module Index (for quick access to all modules) Library Reference (keep this under your pillow) Macintosh Library Modules (this too, if you use a Macintosh) Language Reference (for language lawyers) Extending and Embedding (tutorial for C/C++ programmers) Python/C API (reference for C/C++ programmers) Documenting Python (information for documentation author...

  • Python 2.5.4 Documentation

    ...cate previous versions What's New in Python 2.5 (changes since previous major release) Tutorial (start here) Global Module Index (for quick access to all modules) Library Reference (keep this under your pillow) Macintosh Library Modules (this too, if you use a Macintosh) Language Reference (for language lawyers) Extending and Embedding (tutorial for C/C++ programmers) Python/C API (reference for C/C++ programmers) Documenting Python (information for documentation author...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...ce was in C and C++, I felt that another language might be a better choice for quickly developing a graphical user interface. VTK is written in C++, but it has also been wrapped for Python, Tcl and 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 ...

  • Foreword for "Programming Python" (1st ed.)

    ...code a particular construct. This reduces the number of choices facing the programmer who is writing the code, and increases the chance that will appear familiar to a second programmer reading it. Yet another contribution to Python's readability is the choice to use punctuation mostly in a conservative, conventional manner. Most operator symbols are familiar to anyone with even a vague recollection of high school math, and no new meanings have to be learned for comic strip curse charac...

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

    ...ch as C, C++, Java, and Visual Basic. The language is the basis of mission-critical applications used by tens of thousands of companies and organizations worldwide, and its user base is growing rapidly. Python is increasingly used in large system development to decrease software costs, mitigate risk, and meet aggressive schedules. "This new release combines a select set of language and standard library improvements with a substantial speed boost. Typical Python code runs 15 to 20 perce...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 31-May-2003

    ...Community Coordinator. Other companies using Python include The New York Stock Exchange, Google, Philips, Hewlett Packard, Rackspace, Industrial Light and Magic, NASA, Disney, Compaq, and AstraZeneca. About Python Python is a powerful object oriented programming language that is developed and maintained by a global community of Open Source contributors, under the oversight of the Python Software Foundation. Python's unique blend of simplicity and power excels in a wide range of so...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 23-Sep-2003

    ...city and power excels in a wide range of software development tasks, including the construction of web applications, complex integrated business solutions, and large desktop applications. Python is often characterized as an agile language that promotes speedy development and includes a unit-testing framework for building more robust applications. Key features of Python include: Object orientation, modular name spaces, exceptions, and multi-threading High-level dynamic data typing a...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 19-Dec-2003

    ...Python, including several serious errors with weakrefs and the cyclic garbage collector. There are also a number of fixes to the standard library. Python is a powerful and agile programming language that significantly increases programmer productivity. It is very easy to learn for programmers of other languages such as C, C++, Java, and Visual Basic. The language is the basis of mission-critical applications used by tens of thousands of companies and organizations worldwide, and its ...

  • Python Distutils-SIG: Design Proposal

    ...class, also named for the command -- e.g. distutils.build.Build. These command classes will inherit from the Command class, which (at the very least) will provide a means of dealing with command-specific options. (Command will provide a constructor that takes a Distribution class and an optional list of arguments for this command, and parse the argument list by inspecting getopt-style option specifiers in the Command-derived instance.) Each command clas...

  • Python Distutils-SIG: Design Proposal

    ...class, also named for the command -- e.g. distutils.build.Build. These command classes will inherit from the Command class, which (at the very least) will provide a means of dealing with command-specific options. (Command will provide a constructor that takes a Distribution class and an optional list of arguments for this command, and parse the argument list by inspecting getopt-style option specifiers in the Command-derived instance.) Each command clas...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 3-Oct-2003

    ...and packaging problems found in version 2.3.1, which introduced a number of enhancements based on two months of experience since release of version 2.3. Python is a powerful and agile programming language that significantly increases programmer productivity. It is very easy to learn for programmers of other languages such as C, C++, Java, and Visual Basic. The language is the basis of mission-critical applications used by tens of thousands of companies and organizations worldwide, and i...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Bugs

    ...python24). In this case, manually delete the shortcut, and create new shortcuts with the command "C:\Program Files\python24\pythonw.exe" and the command line options "C:\Program Files\python24\Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw" and "C:\Program Files\python24\Tools\scripts\pydocgui.pyw" This will not be a problem if Python is installed into its default location (i.e. c:\python24). IDLE now executes code in a separate process. To communicate between the main process and executin...

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