Re: Who uses Python?
On Jun 4, 1:53 pm, Mark Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Jollans wrote: Broadly speaking, everyone who uses python programs in it and may thus be considered a programmer. A woman from a job agency 'phoned me up the other day, and asked me if I was any good with algortihms. I told her that all programs are algorithms, so the question didn't make that much sense. Needless to say, I wasn't offered an interview ;) The guy who got the job replied Yeah, I use them all the time. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
On Jun 4, 12:37 pm, walterbyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? I use Python to teach mathematics and analytical thinking to both children and adults. The OO way of casting a problem has a lot of power. I'm working in the CP4E tradition (Computer Programming for Everybody), an initiative launched by Guido in the early days of Python. And yes, I actually get paid for this work (some of it -- I volunteer my time too). http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/cp4e.html I'm also a database programmer, use other languages besides Python, use Python for other tasks besides teaching. Kirby PS: my background is philosophy, my major at Princeton (famous philo guy Richard Rorty was my thesis advisor and one of my best teachers -- his obit is in today's New York Times). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Python as a replacement for MatLab, and intend to use it as replacement for Delphi, AutoIt, PHP, VB. And I'ld love to use it as a replacement for micro controller programming. If you have a little sub - 64k micro this is not really practical. What we have done is to define a limited virtual machine with a simple assembler language and used Python to write the compiler for it. Then you have to write the interpreter for the virtual machine in the native micro's code - Either using C or assembler, and you are away from the hardware, into a useful layer of abstraction. ... well sort of - in such a small thing, you are never really far from the hardware, as that is what its supposed to be controlling - but what it definitely buys you is that your apps written in your special language become portable between disparate processors like say an ARM at the upper end and an 8031/8051 at the lower... Such interpreters are surprisingly little code, and they work well - faster than what one would expect. - often outperforming C code that does pass by value... - Hendrik Amen! That is, while it is indeed easy to construct examples where Python computes a numerical result only a hundredth as fast as the corresponding C code, what I find far more interesting to discuss are the (surprisingly frequent) cases where Python and litte languages result in solutions which are *faster* at run-time, along with being more maintainable and quick to develop. Yet more chatter on a role for Python with specialized hardware ap- pears in URL: http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9133/ur0404e/ . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Python as a replacement for MatLab, and intend to use it as replacement for Delphi, AutoIt, PHP, VB. And I'ld love to use it as a replacement for micro controller programming. If you have a little sub - 64k micro this is not really practical. What we have done is to define a limited virtual machine with a simple assembler language and used Python to write the compiler for it. Then you have to write the interpreter for the virtual machine in the native micro's code - Either using C or assembler, and you are away from the hardware, into a useful layer of abstraction. ... well sort of - in such a small thing, you are never really far from the hardware, as that is what its supposed to be controlling - but what it definitely buys you is that your apps written in your special language become portable between disparate processors like say an ARM at the upper end and an 8031/8051 at the lower... Such interpreters are surprisingly little code, and they work well - faster than what one would expect. - often outperforming C code that does pass by value... - Hendrik hello Hendrik, I use even smaller micro controllers (PIC) and as I'm just writing a functional simulator for it in Python, (see http://oase.uci.kun.nl/~mientki/data_www/pic/jalcc/python/jal_simulation.html and even a small movie: (600 kB) http://oase.uci.ru.nl/~mientki/download/jal_simulator1.htm I would love to see your code, not directly to use it (I want JAL), but it might give me some good ideas. cheers, Stef Mientki -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
On Jun 4, 1:47 pm, Mark Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: walterbyrd wrote: Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? I played with NodeBox a little while ago:http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Home NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented. Pretty trippy stuff. Thanks for the link. Neato. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
walterbyrd ha scritto: I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? I have heard of some DBAs who use a lot of python. I suppose some scientists. I think python is used in bioinformatics. I think some math and physics people use python. I suppose some people use python to learn programming in general. Python would do well as a teaching language. I would think that python would be a good language for data analysis. Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? We use it for everything from automated tape handling and cleaning systems to driving encoders and specialized TBCs as well as controlling creaky old video decks. The core logic of our system is also in python which using a little bit of Twisted ties together the FreeBSD and Windows machines that the various daemons run on. Though that doesn't answer your question since I guess that makes us programmers whom I am sure own the lion's share of python usage. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
On Jun 4, 3:37 pm, walterbyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? I have heard of some DBAs who use a lot of python. I suppose some scientists. I think python is used in bioinformatics. I think some math and physics people use python. I suppose some people use python to learn programming in general. Python would do well as a teaching language. I would think that python would be a good language for data analysis. Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? I use Python to automate GIS vector and raster processing, to generate and translate metadata, and to build repository ingest objects to feed a digital archive. I'm a librarian and coordinate a federally funded research project, http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/ncgdap/ We also have another Python developer in the library who use it to process data and metadate for various library catalog functions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? You might try the Python Success Stories for a good source for finding a wide variety of Python users and usage http://pythonology.org/success -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona == Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News== http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups = East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption = -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
walterbyrd wrote: I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? IT Security Analysts use it... see code and screenshots... these are not professional programmers: http://filebox.vt.edu/users/rtilley/public/find_ssns/mac/index.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
We used Python with wxPython GUI Toolkit to build this simple image uploader: http://www.mytago.com/uploader/ Even with no previous Python or wxPython experience at all, we could get it working in a very short time. -- www.mytago.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Python as a replacement for MatLab, and intend to use it as replacement for Delphi, AutoIt, PHP, VB. And I'ld love to use it as a replacement for micro controller programming. If you have a little sub - 64k micro this is not really practical. What we have done is to define a limited virtual machine with a simple assembler language and used Python to write the compiler for it. Then you have to write the interpreter for the virtual machine in the native micro's code - Either using C or assembler, and you are away from the hardware, into a useful layer of abstraction. ... well sort of - in such a small thing, you are never really far from the hardware, as that is what its supposed to be controlling - but what it definitely buys you is that your apps written in your special language become portable between disparate processors like say an ARM at the upper end and an 8031/8051 at the lower... Such interpreters are surprisingly little code, and they work well - faster than what one would expect. - often outperforming C code that does pass by value... - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
walterbyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? Industrial control and alarm annunciation - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
We use Python in our VOIP server. :-) Python is a very good script language and can be very easy to embed into our server. It is great! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
I tend to agree with some earlier poster that if you use Python you are, in a sense, a programmer :o) But seriously, we use Python for controlling fully automated logistics solutions (conveyors and stacker cranes), for generating PLC code etc etc. We are also about to start using FactoryCAD (a thingy from UGS to run on top af AutoCAD) in which we have intelligent objects. These objects have action code and FactoryCAD contains an embedded Python interpreter. Our mech engineers thus write (although a bit simple but still..) Python to make things work :o) We further have generators of mechanical assemblies in SolidEdge. We use a rule based approach and both the configuration files and the rule base are in Python. Our Mech engineers maintain that too. My two cent.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
i use it for text mining, processing large text corpora for scientific purposes. i'm also working on some neat data mining tools written in python (called orange, in case someone's interested) walterbyrd je napisao/la: I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? I have heard of some DBAs who use a lot of python. I suppose some scientists. I think python is used in bioinformatics. I think some math and physics people use python. I suppose some people use python to learn programming in general. Python would do well as a teaching language. I would think that python would be a good language for data analysis. Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i use it for text mining, processing large text corpora for scientific purposes. i'm also working on some neat data mining tools written in python (called orange, in case someone's interested) Hi, I am very interested with your use of Python. I am into text mining as well. Perhaps we can communicate more on this... I am also interested in your data mining tools, orange... Care to give more details. Thanks in advance Maurice -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
On 2007-06-04, walterbyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? I manage the database application, data integration, and reporting for a financial aid office, and I use Python every day. Though I only seldom have to write new programs or update my old ones. I use it to shuffle and sort important files around, to convert reports into formats necessary for various import and export functions, to reconcile data between database systems, and to maintain little text databases for various business processes. The only programming language I use more often is Excel (VLOOKUP and Pivot Tables specifically). Python can replace any individual Excel application, but I use Excel for a bunch of one-timers, for which I find it more convenient. Python enters the picture when I find something that I need to do frequently, and with similar data inputs and outputs. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
On Jun 5, 3:01 am, Maria R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tend to agree with some earlier poster that if you use Python you are, in a sense, a programmer :o) Yes, in a sense. But, in another sense, that is sort of like saying that people who post on message boards are writers. I should have been more clear, when I posted programmers I meant professional programmers i.e. people who develop software applications for a living. I am getting the idea that most python programmers use python more like a tool, rather than as their primary specialization. In other words, python is usually not the primary specialization. I think this is different than other languages, such as Java, or even PHP. Few python users are specifically python programmers rather, they are data analysts, scientists, etc. who use python in the same way that some might use excel - as a tool. BTW: I am seriously impressed with the stuff that many here are doing with python. And I would like to thank those who responded to my post. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
walterbyrd wrote: On Jun 5, 3:01 am, Maria R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tend to agree with some earlier poster that if you use Python you are, in a sense, a programmer :o) Yes, in a sense. But, in another sense, that is sort of like saying that people who post on message boards are writers. I should have been more clear, when I posted programmers I meant professional programmers i.e. people who develop software applications for a living. I am getting the idea that most python programmers use python more like a tool, rather than as their primary specialization. In other words, python is usually not the primary specialization. I think this is different than other languages, such as Java, or even PHP. Good professional programmers don't have a single language. That's true even of Java programmers. PHP is an odd case; there are good PHP programmers, but there's also a large group of people who aren't really trained as programmers at all (despite writing PHP for a living) for whom it's the only language they kind-of know. The same thing exists in other languages, but in my experience it's a fair bit more common in the PHP world. Few python users are specifically python programmers rather, they are data analysts, scientists, etc. who use python in the same way that FWIW, the majority of my paid work day is spent developing Python code (or doing ancillary work common to all software projects--gathering requirements, design, testing, etc), and it's the 3rd job in a row (going back to 1999) where I've done a significant amount of Python coding for work. The prior two also involved a fair amount of C, Java, and Perl as well. I wouldn't call myself specifically a Python programmer, but I wouldn't have called myself specifically a C programmer 10 years ago--and when I'm hiring, it's much more important to me to find a good programmer than to find a programmer who knows Python (or whatever other system is in use). Programming as a skill is largely independent of any single language, but that's not a Python-centric statement. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
walterbyrd wrote: On Jun 5, 3:01 am, Maria R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tend to agree with some earlier poster that if you use Python you are, in a sense, a programmer :o) Yes, in a sense. But, in another sense, that is sort of like saying that people who post on message boards are writers. I should have been more clear, when I posted programmers I meant professional programmers i.e. people who develop software applications for a living. I've heard that 80% of what google is doing, is done in Python ;-) I use Python as a replacement for MatLab, and intend to use it as replacement for Delphi, AutoIt, PHP, VB. And I'ld love to use it as a replacement for micro controller programming. The hardest to replace language is Delphi. And all the work I perform with these languages is paid ;-) The compagnies that only uses Python is growing. cheers, Stef -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
On Jun 4, 12:37 pm, walterbyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? I have heard of some DBAs who use a lot of python. I suppose some scientists. I think python is used in bioinformatics. I think some math and physics people use python. I suppose some people use python to learn programming in general. Python would do well as a teaching language. I would think that python would be a good language for data analysis. Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? Large-scale distributed systems... -Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
--- walterbyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting the idea that most python programmers use python more like a tool, rather than as their primary specialization. In other words, python is usually not the primary specialization. I'm one of the exceptions to this rule. My primary work product is Python code. I'm not using Python code to solve scientific problems, model data, etc., Instead, I'm writing code that will hopefully execute without failure long after I've written it. I'm basically writing Python code that moves the data from here to there much faster than a human could move the data. Which isn't to say that I don't also use Python as a tool. I do write plenty of throwaway Python programs where working Python code is not the end goal; it's the data analysis, getting an invoice out, etc. that really matters. Also, I'm lucky enough to specialize in Python now, but like many of the previous folks that replied to you, I have backgrounds in other languages. At my current job I still spent about 3 to 5 percent of my time maintaining legacy C/C++ code. Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
On Jun 6, 12:07 pm, Steve Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- walterbyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting the idea that most python programmers use python more like a tool, rather than as their primary specialization. In other words, python is usually not the primary specialization. I'm one of the exceptions to this rule. My primary work product is Python code. I'm not using Python code to solve scientific problems, model data, etc., Instead, I'm writing code that will hopefully execute without failure long after I've written it. I'm basically writing Python code that moves the data from here to there much faster than a human could move the data. Which isn't to say that I don't also use Python as a tool. I do write plenty of throwaway Python programs where working Python code is not the end goal; it's the data analysis, getting an invoice out, etc. that really matters. Also, I'm lucky enough to specialize in Python now, but like many of the previous folks that replied to you, I have backgrounds in other languages. At my current job I still spent about 3 to 5 percent of my time maintaining legacy C/C++ code. Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool.http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/ I know loads of people doing Real Software Development, myself included, who work primarily with Python on a professional basis. (loads means 10 here) In fact, most programmers I know personally use Python. I am lucky enough to work exclusively in Python. Cheers, -T -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
On Jun 5, 12:37 am, walterbyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? I have heard of some DBAs who use a lot of python. I suppose some scientists. I think python is used in bioinformatics. I think some math and physics people use python. I suppose some people use python to learn programming in general. Python would do well as a teaching language. I would think that python would be a good language for data analysis. Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? Python is a rapid application development language..we uses it every where.. in web application development..GUI development..Automation/Regression test-suite development..Text/XML processing..website Scrapping/ Scrawling..Gaming..etc.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
On 2007-06-06, Vijayendra Bapte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Python is a rapid application development language..we uses it every where.. in web application development..GUI development..Automation/Regression test-suite development..Text/XML processing..website Scrapping Boy, do I know some web sites that need to be scrapped. ;) -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Am I accompanied by at a PARENT or GUARDIAN? visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
On Jun 4, 2:37 pm, walterbyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? I have heard of some DBAs who use a lot of python. I suppose some scientists. I think python is used in bioinformatics. I think some math and physics people use python. I suppose some people use python to learn programming in general. Python would do well as a teaching language. I would think that python would be a good language for data analysis. Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? We use it for login scripts, locking down PCs, automating backups, GIS, and more. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
On 2007-06-04, walterbyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? Electrical engineering. It's pretty handy for writing programs to talk to embedded systems using various protocols/interface (async-serial, ethernet, etc.). It's also good for analyzing communications, analyzing performance tests for analog instruments, and so on. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Edwin Meese made me at wear CORDOVANS!! visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
RE: Who uses Python?
I'm a Technical Artist at a videogame developer. The TAs here are using Python more and more for our development needs. Although I'd say our primary use is on the tools and data-mining front... only indirectly relating to creation of digital art. It's closer to why a programmer or sysadmin would use Python, I suppose. -- Adam Pletcher Senior Technical Artist Volition / THQ www.volition-inc.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of walterbyrd Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 2:37 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Who uses Python? I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? I have heard of some DBAs who use a lot of python. I suppose some scientists. I think python is used in bioinformatics. I think some math and physics people use python. I suppose some people use python to learn programming in general. Python would do well as a teaching language. I would think that python would be a good language for data analysis. Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
On Jun 4, 3:37 pm, walterbyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? I have heard of some DBAs who use a lot of python. I suppose some scientists. I think python is used in bioinformatics. I think some math and physics people use python. I suppose some people use python to learn programming in general. Python would do well as a teaching language. I would think that python would be a good language for data analysis. Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? Presumably most of the above are programmers when they're writing programs in Python, right? It's a general purpose language that can be used for a very wide range of domains. FWIW, I do use it for digital art (music visualization). It's excellent for data analysis (I've done everything from stats on lines in an SQL database to mining flat text files of data for statistical projections of MLB baseball player performance). I know a couple of people who sell a double-entry accounting system written in Python, which is presumably finance. Web analytics is very common (I've seen several such projects). I know at least one group using python as a control language in embedded systems (at least at one point a few years back they had opted for Stackless, but Python nonetheless); they're doing some cool home-automation style stuff. I've also written my window manager, various text editor extensions, numerous web applications, one-off data analysis scripts, several GUI applications, etc in Python (or mostly Python). The apps I've worked on range from one-offs at the command line to midrange scripts to multiple-hundreds-of-thousands of lines of code projects worked on by many developers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
walterbyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] programmers, and web-site developers? Broadly speaking, everyone who uses python programs in it and may thus be considered a programmer. Python is a fully-fledged programming language and as such used for loads of things, like any other language. Thomas Jollans -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
I use it for processing GIS data (ALOT), building data harvesting apps that slurp data into MySQL/SQLServer from text files (ALOT), batch processing of daily mindless tasks like copying files and backups, and filing/cataloging/EXIF-IPTC metadata editing on digital photos - to name a few. I took Mark Lutz's python course last year and he summed it up with Anything you can do on a computer, you can do with Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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walterbyrd wrote: Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? I played with NodeBox a little while ago: http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Home NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented. Pretty trippy stuff. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
RE: Who uses Python?
I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? I have heard of some DBAs who use a lot of python. I suppose some scientists. I think python is used in bioinformatics. I think some math and physics people use python. I suppose some people use python to learn programming in general. Python would do well as a teaching language. I would think that python would be a good language for data analysis. Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? I use for GIS Data automation in the backend and gradually replacing all old VBA application with the Python scripts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
Thomas Jollans wrote: Broadly speaking, everyone who uses python programs in it and may thus be considered a programmer. A woman from a job agency 'phoned me up the other day, and asked me if I was any good with algortihms. I told her that all programs are algorithms, so the question didn't make that much sense. Needless to say, I wasn't offered an interview ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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Mark Carter wrote: A woman from a job agency 'phoned me up the other day, and asked me if I was any good with algortihms. I told her that all programs are algorithms, so the question didn't make that much sense. What does your answer have to do with the qustion, I wonder? She asked if you were good with algorithms to which you replied that all programs are algorithms. Maybe so, but that's not what she asked. The question makes perfect sense, however your answer doesn't, unless you also added something along the lines of And since I'm good with programs I am good with algorithms. /W (these days appearantly standing for What a nitpicker ;)) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:37:10 -0700, walterbyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? I have heard of some DBAs who use a lot of python. I suppose some scientists. I think python is used in bioinformatics. I think some math and physics people use python. I suppose some people use python to learn programming in general. Python would do well as a teaching language. I would think that python would be a good language for data analysis. Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? I'm a hobbyist. No, that's not right - I run a course and I learnt the language writing a program to allocate tutors and students to tutorial groups over a three day course I run. I don't know what that makes me - and, no, I don't want any helpful answers! DaveM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
walterbyrd wrote: Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? We're using Python for a computer-controlled railway simulation system at a german university. It consists of a rather large model railway network, constructed with realism concerning railway operations, coupled to realistic railway control centre technology. Uses are education of students, training of railway employees, teaching of railway basics to career changers and managers, and simulation of new operating procedures. Python (2.5.1) is used here for - the main database where all states are kept (signal aspects, given and actual turnout states, track occupation ...). It's a simple binary protocol using TCP; the server maintains string:int pairs in a Python dict. It's made with Twisted and running under twistd. - the automatic drive controlling software of the model trains. It listens for changes of signals and track occupation and controls the model trains using a commercial digital model railroad controller attached to /dev/ttyS0. Also using Twisted/twistd, and pyserial. - various helper scripts and little servers for small functional units (tramway reverser, level crossings) Momentarily, I'm working on a program that simulates a german relais rail control centre of a certain type (also using Twisted). We already have it in C++, but it's difficult to maintain and needs a rewrite because of various bugs. Starting to use combined wxPython/Twisted apps in the near future is likely. We're mainly using Debian Sarge as OS. pylint is also recently used to check the code. Right now, we use Python for approx. 2 years. Other languages used are C, C++, and Perl (ugh :) ), for other core applications and the microcontrollers (interfacing with the railway components). We mainly have low-end computers (100-800 MHz), but the performance suffices absolutely. The source code is maintained using Subversion. Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #404: Sysadmin accidentally destroyed pager with a large hammer. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
I went through my who undergrad experience without touching python (I've hear of it, but never used it). Now starting to work in an Research Lab Seismic processing of data, we use it all the time! That and Madagascar pyton interface. ~code -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
walterbyrd wrote: I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? I have heard of some DBAs who use a lot of python. I suppose some scientists. I think python is used in bioinformatics. I think some math and physics people use python. I suppose some people use python to learn programming in general. Python would do well as a teaching language. I would think that python would be a good language for data analysis. Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? I use Python for my bioinformatics work, mainly in text analysis and transcriptome analysis. ML -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Who uses Python?
On Jun 4, 2:37 pm, walterbyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using python for csound.. You can use it inside of csound as well as using it on csound files... python makes text files very easy... I have to say that the price was very good and that is very important because I don't get funding from anywhere. You can also get programmers at a good cost for simple problems when you get stuck... through getacoder.com I was offered a $10 bid to solve one (I fixed it befour the bid was finished though) http://www.stormpages.com/edexter/csound.html I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? I have heard of some DBAs who use a lot of python. I suppose some scientists. I think python is used in bioinformatics. I think some math and physics people use python. I suppose some people use python to learn programming in general. Python would do well as a teaching language. I would think that python would be a good language for data analysis. Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
