what are you using python language for?

[Dale Huffman]

Re: what are you using python language for?


hacker1017 wrote:[color=blue]
> im just asking out of curiosity.[/color]

Embedded control system

[Grant Edwards]

Re: what are you (not) using python language for?

On 2006-06-07, robert <no-spam@no-spam-no-spam.com> wrote:
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> I am curious for what kind of (new) serious programs and projects the
> Python language and its offsprings like Pyrex would not be the optimal
> programming language currently?[/color]

The stuff I work on for which I don't use Python:

* Device drivers (Linux and BSD).

* Embedded systems. Even at the high end of things, my
projects have only a few MB of memory -- not nearly enough
to run Python. There's really not much point in discussing
Python for the smaller projects with 16KB of ROM and 256
bytes of RAM. ;)

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at NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP near
visi.com ATLANTA, Georgia!!

[AdSR]

Re: what are you using python language for?

I'm using Python for:

* log analysis
* test tools
* data massaging
* prototyping

[Jason]

Re: what are you using python language for?

I've been working on an RPG character generator for consistent (yet
varied) set of role-playing systems. Nothing like a pen-and-pencil RPG
to throw in tons of special cases and strange rulesets.

Python's turned out to be very useful for this project:

1. Fast prototyping and testing. I'm not starting the GUI until after
I get all the quirks of the rule-set down first. Naturally, I've got a
python script which sets up a subset of the rules, then a series of
unit tests which operate on the partially constructed RPG.

2. Dynamic typing. The cost object for a Character Gift can vary
dramatically in behavior. Being able to dynamically re-assign the
current cost object to a different cost type is very nice. (The cost
types are pretty much similar in data, but their methods act
differently.)

3. Joyous object serialization via the pickle protocol. While I'm
using the Gnosis XML pickler, there's always the default picklers, too.

While not part of Python, the platform-agnostic ruleset should be a
bonus. If someone doesn't like my wxPython front-end, then they can go
through the trouble of re-implementing it in their favorite system, be
it .NET and IronPython or Python/TK.

[Petr Jakes]

Re: what are you using python language for?

hacker1017 wrote:[color=blue]
> im just asking out of curiosity.[/color]
a vending machine controlled from the PC (peripherals connected using
I2C bus (SMBus) and the MDB coin change-giver and the bill acceptor
connected to the serial port).

Petr Jakes

[Frank Potter]

Re: what are you using python language for?

I use python to grab imformations and embed it in my delphi app. I
gather what I am intereted in so I can read them faster.

And I also use python to do some othere everyday jobs, such as
periodically copying and zipping a directory into another computer to
backup the comtent.

On 7 Jun 2006 16:11:54 -0700, Petr Jakes <petr@tpc.cz> wrote:[color=blue]
> hacker1017 wrote:[color=green]
> > im just asking out of curiosity.[/color]
> a vending machine controlled from the PC (peripherals connected using
> I2C bus (SMBus) and the MDB coin change-giver and the bill acceptor
> connected to the serial port).
>
> Petr Jakes
>
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>[/color]

[jean-michel bain-cornu]

Re: what are you using python language for?

This is my main development tool.
I use it for business specific applications (with wx, cherrypy and
mysql), mail server administration (in console mode and with cherrypy),
and utilities.
Regards
jm

[Andrew Robert]

Re: what are you using python language for?

I use python and the pymqi module to work with IBM WebSphere MQSeries
and IBM WebSphere Message broker.

[John Salerno]

Re: what are you using python language for?

Jason wrote:[color=blue]
> I've been working on an RPG character generator for consistent (yet
> varied) set of role-playing systems. Nothing like a pen-and-pencil RPG
> to throw in tons of special cases and strange rulesets.[/color]

Sounds interesting. Something I've thought about as a project, but I'm
not good enough yet! :)

[gregarican]

Re: what are you using python language for?

Wow that's serious Old School. Reminds me of way-back-when in Data
Processing class we used VisiCalc on the old Trash-80's for spreadsheet
work. Cut a notch in those 5 1/4" floppies and voila, you doubled your
storage capacity :-)

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:[color=blue]
> On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:52:38 GMT, John Salerno
> <johnjsal@NOSPA Mgmail.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.pytho n:
>[color=green]
> > Jason wrote:[color=darkred]
> > > I've been working on an RPG character generator for consistent (yet
> > > varied) set of role-playing systems. Nothing like a pen-and-pencil RPG
> > > to throw in tons of special cases and strange rulesets.[/color]
> >
> > Sounds interesting. Something I've thought about as a project, but I'm
> > not good enough yet! :)[/color]
>
> Many years ago I had the starship design tables from (first edition)
> Traveller incorporated into a Multiplan spreadsheet running on a TRS-80
> Model 4
> --
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> HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
> (Bestiaria Support Staff: web-asst@bestiaria. com)
> HTTP://www.bestiaria.com/[/color]

[baalbek]

Re: what are you using python language for?

To score with the chicks!

A Python script roams the nightclubs for beautiful women, finds an
appropriate woman based on my preferances, charms her with its sleek
Pythonic manners, calls for a cab and brings the lady to my recidency.

Works like a charm!

Baalbek

[bruno at modulix]

Re: what are you using python language for?

baalbek wrote:[color=blue]
> To score with the chicks!
>
> A Python script roams the nightclubs for beautiful women, finds an
> appropriate woman based on my preferances, charms her with its sleek
> Pythonic manners, calls for a cab and brings the lady to my recidency.
>
> Works like a charm![/color]

Is that OSS ?-)



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python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb@xiludom. gro'.split('@')])"

[John J. Lee]

Re: what are you using python language for?

mauriceling@gma il.com writes:
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> I am using Python to assemble a biomedical literature analysis pipeline
> as part of my PhD thesis. (http://ib-dwb.sf.net/Muscorian.html)[/color]

What's a literature analysis pipeline?

(mental picture: fat pressurised pipe leading to big noisy wood
chipper-style machine spewing out a flapping stream of stapled A4 into
a large skip :-)

One of the first things I used the language for was to avoid using a
nasty web interface when I wanted to do lots of scientific literature
searches. Now, I use it to write nasty web interfaces ;-) Poacher
turned gamekeeper...


John