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  • Python For Beginners

    ...languages which might be useful if English is not your first language. The online documentation is your first port of call for definitive information. There is a fairly brief tutorial that gives you basic information about the language and gets you started. You can follow this by looking at the library reference for a full description of Python's many libraries and the language reference for a complete (though somewhat dry) explanation of Python's syntax. If you are looking for common Python rec...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...languages Python allows us to easily interface to most other languages. This makes it easy to hook other code into our Python code base. Interfacing with other languages is a core aspect of the GravityZoo Framework. Stability One major concern in the beginning was the stability of Python. Until now, Python has been a very robust platform for much of our framework. Most bugs and problems were easily resolved. Performance The performance of Python was also a huge concern for us. During the proce...

  • A Journey to Python

    ...languages high and low, from microcoding (even FPGA "programming", lower-level yet :-), through assembly code for many machines, through standard "high-level" languages (Pascal, Fortran, PL/I, C, C++, 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 langu...

  • SIG for XML Processing in Python

    ...Language, a standard defined by the World Wide Web Consortium. Originally developed as a standard to enable the interchange of structured data, XML has expanded to encompass databases, distributed computing, and so on. The XML Topic Guide, maintained by the XML SIG, contains links to documentation, source, and so on. While Python includes basic XML processing capabilities, the goal of this SIG is to make Python become the premier language for XML processing. The SIG, through the ma...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...language that was previously used to build the Ultraseek Server and several back-end tasks at Infoseek, was used in creating the Ultraseek spider, as well as the GUI that provides the end-user search box, results pages, and all administrative functions. Python was chosen for several reasons: Python (like Java) is a modern language with objects, modules, threads, exceptions, and automatic memory management. At the time, both C and C++ were rejected as missing at least some of these features. The...

  • 2024 PSF Annual Impact Report

    ...language continued to grow! The PSF celebrated a year of remarkable growth, with Python becoming the most popular language on GitHub and worldwide community engagement at an all-time high. We expanded our impact by welcoming our inaugural PyPI Support Specialist, Maria Ashna, the revival of the User Success and Education and Outreach Workgroups, and continued investment in grants, infrastructure, and accessibility. We’d love for you to take a look at the 2024 Annual Impact Report that w...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...language, dubbed Bridge Scripting Language (BSL), as a substitute for the original sequencing language. I wanted to preserve and expand the ability to easily make changes to business logic without having to recompile code - a feature that is very useful when supporting a manufacturing environment. The original common business practice code of the system, as well as the specific business practice code for the first few TAPs, was written in BSL. It was during this time that I became interested in ...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...language, the language's indentation-defined structure became a virtue, an important part of the overall power and simplicity of the language. In addition to Python's clean design, the following factors make Python a good choice for enterprise integration tasks, like those undertaken at Gusto.com: OS Independence - The ability to develop code on one operating system, email it to a travel suppliers IT group, and have it work seamlessly on another operating system has been a godsend in deploying ...

  • Diversity

    ...languages they are fluent in. (Although core Python development is done in English.) The Python community encourages the creation of user groups in all locales, and many of them are listed at http://wiki.python.org/moin/LocalUserGroups Many of these user groups also have mailing lists in the locally preferred language.

  • Python Success Stories

    ...language for the next generation back-end, which was named PyDrone. Python was chosen for this work because it is one of the best languages available for physical scientists, that is, for people who do not have a computer science background. Many other powerful and expressive high level languages exist, including Perl, Lisp, Scheme, Ruby, CAML, and Haskell. Of all these, Python is one of the few that is based on research into usability and the factors that make a programming language easy to lea...

  • Quotes about Python

    ...language." said Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google, Inc. Journyx "Journyx technology, from the source code of our software to the code that maintains our Web site and ASP sites, is entirely based on Python. It increases our speed of development and keeps us several steps ahead of competitors while remaining easy to read and use. It's as high level of a language as you can have without running into functionality problems. I estimate that Python makes our coders 10 ti...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...language. I'd also read the Python tutorial, seen various Python programs and liked the language very much for its simplicity, object oriented nature, dynamic data typing, and large standard library. Starting with a few simple Python scripts using VTK, I was able to get my colleagues up and running fairly quickly with a few custom CFD visualization scripts. At this time I was still learning Python and Tkinter (the GUI toolkit used in MayaVi) and created a GUI based tool called VTK-CFD in June 2...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...language, use another scripting language to allow flexible configuration at run time by ERP administrators. Python is equally well suited both for scripting and core development, reducing complexity and increasing the flexibility of the system. Using Python allowed code initially written as scripts to be incorporated afterward into core components, and vice versa, wherever this made sense. With Java, it would have been necessary to provide a separate scripting environment based on a different la...

  • D-Link Australia Uses Python to Control Firmware Updates

    ...language itself I chose Python instead. I was not a programmer and I felt I was not going to be able work with and understand Java code. I believed Python would allow me to focus more on the problem rather than the language. DSL Firmware Recovery System The development environment used for this work was Eclipse on Linux, using the pySerial module, tftp, and PyQt3. The hardware contained quad port serial and network cards and an RS-232 to TTL Serial interface that supports carrier detect. The c...

  • Python 2.1 Press Release

    ...language. Python 2.1 is the first release under the auspices of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). <p>"After months of work and many pre-releases, closely coordinated with the Python developer community, Python 2.1 is ready for the world," said Guido van Rossum, Python's creator and director of PythonLabs at Digital Creations. <p>Python 2.1 contains several important innovations over previous versions. Nested scopes, a feature found in many other languages, are finally c...

  • Python 2.1 Press Release

    ...language. Python 2.1 is the first release under the auspices of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). <p>"After months of work and many pre-releases, closely coordinated with the Python developer community, Python 2.1 is ready for the world," said Guido van Rossum, Python's creator and director of PythonLabs at Digital Creations. <p>Python 2.1 contains several important innovations over previous versions. Nested scopes, a feature found in many other languages, are finally c...

  • Python 2.1 Press Release

    ...language. Python 2.1 is the first release under the auspices of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). <p>"After months of work and many pre-releases, closely coordinated with the Python developer community, Python 2.1 is ready for the world," said Guido van Rossum, Python's creator and director of PythonLabs at Digital Creations. <p>Python 2.1 contains several important innovations over previous versions. Nested scopes, a feature found in many other languages, are finally c...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...language, and was extendable and embeddable. Choosing Python Tribon began work on its API in 1995. Two different paths were considered at this stage: Either to publish directly the libraries used by Tribon, or to create a wrapper on top of existing code. The first approach would make all our functionality available to the user, but users would have to use the same development environment as Tribon Solutions, change compiler versions when Tribon Solutions did so, and so forth. This would have b...

  • Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.)

    ...languages. Less warm was the welcome for the extended print statement: print>>file, a shortcut for printing to a different file object than standard output. Personally, it's the Python 2.0 feature I use most frequently, but most people who opened their mouth about found it an abomination. The discussion thread on the newsgroup berating this simple language extension was one of the longest ever -- apart from the never-ending Python vs. Perl thread. Which brings me to the next ...

  • Mission

    ...language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers. You can help fund the PSF by making a donation or becoming a member. The following is the official mission statement of the PSF: The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is a non-profit membership organization devoted to advancing open source technology related to the Python programming language. It qualifies under the US Internal Revenue Code as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) scientific and...

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