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  • Quotes about Python

    ...Java programmers, and 100 times more than C programmers." -- Curt Finch, CEO, Journyx IronPort "IronPort email gateway appliances are used by the largest corporations and ISPs in the world," said Mark Peek, Sr. Director of Engineering at IronPort Systems. "Python is a critical ingredient in this high performance system. IronPort's suite of products contains over a million lines of Python. The PSF is an invaluable resource that helps keep Python on the cutting edge." ...

  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...JavaScript. Unfortunately, both of these approaches have serious limitations. If a course is excessively formal and mathematical, it may only appeal to computer science majors and students of a technical mindset. On the other hand, Web-programming courses, while capitalizing greatly on the popularity of the Internet, tend to narrowly focus on specific technologies such as HTML, Perl, or JavaScript. As a result students learn little about computing within a greater context or gain the prob...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Java. Apart from the latter, Python turned out to be easy to learn for our developers, so easy that even new team members can fairly quickly start focusing on the project rather than learning Python. Cross platform capabilities Python is ported to most platforms that are relevant for our Python code base. This allows large pieces of the GravityZoo Framework to be ported to other platforms, with only small adaptations to the Python code base. Object oriented architecture The highly object orien...

  • A Journey to Python

    ...Java...), all the way to "higher-level" languages which I had always used whenever feasible (Rexx, APL, AWK, Icon, Perl, Scheme...). But never had I met something that "fit my brain" as perfectly as Python. At my "real job", at that time, the language du jour was mostly C++, with a smattering of Visual Basic and a proprietary scripting language that had been developed in-house and was embedded in the applications we developed and sold. However, in parallel, I was ...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Java and Python Legacy System Integration Network Development Product Development Python on Windows Rapid Application Development Real Time Reuse RSS aggregator Scalability Systems Administration Testing Unit Testing Unix/Linux Developers User Interface Visual Effects Web Development Web2.0 XML Arts Film Business Apparel Industry Aviation Business Information Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Collaboration Support Content Management Document Management Energy Efficiency E-Commerce Enter...

  • Frank Willison Memorial Award

    ...Java), and it's quite inviting to first-timers. —comp.lang.python, 2001-01-22 Python is the single best general-purpose computing language we now have--better'n C, or Java, or anything else. —comp.lang.python, 2001-09-14 O'Reilly press release Cameron's wiki page Cameron's personal notes on Python Fredrik Lundh (2003) Fredrik Lundh is well known by his nickname "effbot", so named because of his prolific contributions to the comp.lang.python newsgroup over the years...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Java since everyone in the group was proficient with both. One group member had been exposed to Python in an earlier class and was impressed with the power and ease of use it provided. The fact that the other four members had no experience with the language fortunately did not stop us from making the wise decision to use Python. Very early in the development we required a simple program to test how the touch pad interacts with the operating system. This proved incredibly easy with wxPython, a Py...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Java, C or Visual Basic. After becoming familiar with Python, development proceeds very quickly -- perhaps faster than with any other language. At the same time, Python lends itself to the creation of highly readable, compact and well structured code. Python's particular mix of features also helps embedded developers be more effective when programming a PC. While these developers are well familiar with C (by far the most popular high level language for embedded systems) a C program written for...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Javascript-based browser functionality PyDot for dependency graph rendering, and to draw workflow diagrams for our integrated workflow editor. PyDot relies on graphviz and pyparsing Python for Windows extensions for client-side integration with MS Office (Project, Excel, Word) Jabber for backoffice component interaction and desktop-to-web integration Wildfire as our backend XMPP Server wxPython for the Local Client used in MS Office import/export We provide an integrated Subversion source code ...

  • 2008 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    ...Java. David Goodger reminded the members of his PyCon 2008 pre-conference report sent to the psf-members list. Specifically, the proposal for establishing a paid position for PSF and PyCon work. Some members had not read the proposal. David will re-post the proposal. Facundo Batista asked permission to use the name "PyCon" for a conference in Argentina. The consensus was that Python Argentina is free to use the term. The name "PyCon" is not a registered trademark. Van...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Java (architecture people) so we occasionally get requests to rewrite parts of the project in one of those languages. Even so, we have found developers are interested in learning Python, especially when they see comparisons of development time and effort, resulting code size, and other metrics. About the Authors Scott Boyer is a Principal Scientist in the Enabling Science and Technology section of AstraZeneca Discovery R&D, Mölndal, Sweden. Scott received his Ph.D. from the University of C...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...Java. Here's an example: class C: def foo(x, y): print "staticmethod", x, y foo = staticmethod(foo) C.foo(1, 2) c = C() c.foo(1, 2) Both the call C.foo(1, 2) and the call c.foo(1, 2) call foo() with two arguments, and print "staticmethod 1 2". No "self" is declared in the definition of foo(), and no instance is required in the call. If an instance is used, it is only used to find the class that defines the static method. This...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...Java. Here's an example: class C: def foo(x, y): print "staticmethod", x, y foo = staticmethod(foo) C.foo(1, 2) c = C() c.foo(1, 2) Both the call C.foo(1, 2) and the call c.foo(1, 2) call foo() with two arguments, and print "staticmethod 1 2". No "self" is declared in the definition of foo(), and no instance is required in the call. If an instance is used, it is only used to find the class that defines the static method. This...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...Java. Here's an example: class C: def foo(x, y): print "staticmethod", x, y foo = staticmethod(foo) C.foo(1, 2) c = C() c.foo(1, 2) Both the call C.foo(1, 2) and the call c.foo(1, 2) call foo() with two arguments, and print "staticmethod 1 2". No "self" is declared in the definition of foo(), and no instance is required in the call. If an instance is used, it is only used to find the class that defines the static method. This...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...Java. Here's an example: class C: def foo(x, y): print "staticmethod", x, y foo = staticmethod(foo) C.foo(1, 2) c = C() c.foo(1, 2) Both the call C.foo(1, 2) and the call c.foo(1, 2) call foo() with two arguments, and print "staticmethod 1 2". No "self" is declared in the definition of foo(), and no instance is required in the call. If an instance is used, it is only used to find the class that defines the static method. This works for classic and new c...

  • Built-in Package Support in Python 1.5

    ...Java's package notation, which is similar to Python's, but different. Whenever a submodule of a package is loaded, Python makes sure that the package itself is loaded first, loading its __init__.py file if necessary. The same for packages. Thus, when the statement import Sound.Effects.echo is executed, it first ensures that Sound is loaded; then it ensures that Sound.Effects is loaded; and only then does it ensure that Sound.Effects.echo is loaded (loading it if it hasn't been loaded...

  • EDU-SIG: Python in Education

    ...Java to Python as a language for CS1 courses. Dr. Michael H. Goldwasser and Dr. David Letscher have written a paper entitled Teaching an Object-Oriented CS1 - with Python which has been published in the Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science (ITiCSE) in June 2008. They have also written A Graphics Package for the First Day and Beyond, published in the Proceedings of the 40th Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education in Ma...

  • Notes

    ...Java-style @decorator syntax, like so: @staticmethod def foo(bar): (The PEP needs to be updated to reflect the current state) When importing a module M raises an exception, Python no longer leaves M in sys.modules. Before 2.4a2 it did, and a subsequent import of M would succeed, picking up a module object from sys.modules reflecting as much of the initialization of M as completed before the exception was raised. Subsequent imports got no indication that M was in a partially- initiali...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

    ...Java-style @decorator syntax, like so: @staticmethod def foo(bar): (The PEP needs to be updated to reflect the current state) When importing a module M raises an exception, Python no longer leaves M in sys.modules. Before 2.4a2 it did, and a subsequent import of M would succeed, picking up a module object from sys.modules reflecting as much of the initialization of M as completed before the exception was raised. Subsequent imports got no indication that M was in a partially- initiali...

  • PSF Board Resolutions

    ...Java package name be reserved for use by the Jython project. Approved by IRC vote 7-0-0, March 12, 2007. RESOLVED, that the Chicago bid be accepted for PyCon 2008. Approved 5-0-0, February 25, 2007. RESOLVED, that the Public Support Committee is dissolved. Approved 5-0-0, February 25, 2007. RESOLVED, that the Grants Committee is dissolved. Approved 5-0-0, February 25, 2007. RESOLVED, that the PSF update the trademark policy available at http://python.org/psf/trademarks to version 1.3, as...

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