"John Nagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (Guido) YouTube is almost entirely written in Python.
> Probably just the web page maintenance system is in Python. I am sure that that is pretty much all he meant. > I doubt that actual video passes through Python at any point. > Transcoding in Python would take forever. I would expect that the video files are stored in a ready-to-send format. And that they wrote or perhaps adapted a pre-written compilable video library. Ditto for the backend database. And CPython makes it relatively easy to call such add-ons. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
