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Among the high level languages, Python seemed to be the best choice, since we already use it in many places like package build scripts, package manager, control panel modules, and installer program YALI2. Python has small and has clean source codes. Standard library is full of useful modules. Learning curve is easy, most of the developers in our team picked up the language in a few days without prior experience.
-- Pardus Linux developers Gürer Özen and Görkem Çetin, in "Speeding Up Linux: One Step Further With Pardus".
Using Python For...
- Web Programming
- CGI, Zope, Django, TurboGears, XML
- Databases
- ODBC, MySQL
- GUI Development
- wxPython, tkInter, PyGtk, PyQt
- Scientific and Numeric
- Bioinformatics, Physics
- Education
- pyBiblio, Software Carpentry Course
- Networking
- Sockets, Twisted
- Software Development
- Buildbot, Trac, Roundup, IDEs
- Game Development
- PyGame, PyKyra, 3D Rendering
Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. You can learn to use Python and see almost immediate gains in productivity and lower maintenance costs.
Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, and has been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines.
Python is free to use, even for commercial products, because of its OSI-approved open source license.
The Python Software Foundation holds the intellectual property rights behind Python, underwrites the PyCon conference, and funds other projects in the Python community.
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SciPy 2010 in Austin, Texas
Scientific computing conference comprised of tutorials, a general conference, keynote talks from David Beazley and Travis Oliphant, commercial tracks, and developer sprints. June 28 - July 3 on the University of Texas campus. See the conference website for details.
PyCon Australia Call for Proposals
Talk submissions are now being accepted for PyCon Australia 2010, held Saturday 26th June and Sunday 27th June in Sydney, Australia.
Python 2.7 beta 1 released
The first beta of Python 2.7 has been released for testing.
Google Summer of Code: call for participation
Python is participating in the Google Summer of Code, and we welcome mentors and students! Please see the Python Summer of Code site for more details on how to participate.
EuroScipy call for papers
Abstract submission is now open for EuroScipy 2010, the 3rd European meeting on Python in Science. The conference will be held at the Ecole Normale Superieure, in Paris, July 8-11 2010.
Python 3.1.2 released
The second bug fix release for the Python 3.1 series is now available.
Python 2.6.5 final
The final release for Python 2.6.5 is now available.