Who uses Python?

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

Re: Who uses Python?

"walterbyrd " <w..rd@iname.co mwrote:

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Industrial control and alarm annunciation

- Hendrik

[Hongtian]

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!

[Maria R]

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 "intelligen t" 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..

[montyphyton@gmail.com]

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 "programmin g" 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?

[Maurice LING]

Re: Who uses Python?

montyphyton@gma il.com 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

[Neil Cerutti]

Re: Who uses Python?

On 2007-06-04, walterbyrd <walterbyrd@ina me.comwrote:

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 "programmin g 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

[walterbyrd]

Re: Who uses Python?

On Jun 5, 3:01 am, Maria R <Maria.Reinham. ..@accalon.comw rote:

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 "programmer s" I meant
"profession al programmers" i.e. people who develop software
applications for a living.

I am getting the idea that most python "programmer s" 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.

[sjdevnull@yahoo.com]

Re: Who uses Python?

walterbyrd wrote:

On Jun 5, 3:01 am, Maria R <Maria.Reinham. ..@accalon.comw rote:

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 "programmer s" I meant
"profession al programmers" i.e. people who develop software
applications for a living.
>
I am getting the idea that most python "programmer s" 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.

[Cameron Laird]

Python for industrial control (was: Who uses Python?)

In article <mailman.8709.1 181026196.32031 .python-list@python.org >,
Hendrik van Rooyen <mail@microcorp .co.zawrote:

"walterbyrd " <w..rd@iname.co mwrote:
>

>Anything else? Finance? Web-analytics? SEO? Digital art?

>
>Industrial control and alarm annunciation

[Stef Mientki]

Re: Who uses Python?

walterbyrd wrote:

On Jun 5, 3:01 am, Maria R <Maria.Reinham. ..@accalon.comw rote:

>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 "programmer s" I meant
"profession al 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

[Klaas]

Re: Who uses Python?

On Jun 4, 12:37 pm, walterbyrd <walterb...@ina me.comwrote:

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 "programmin g" 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

[tleeuwenburg@gmail.com]

Re: Who uses Python?

On Jun 6, 12:07 pm, Steve Howell <showel...@yaho o.comwrote:

--- walterbyrd <walterb...@ina me.comwrote:

I am getting the idea that most python "programmer s"
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.
>
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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

[Vijayendra Bapte]

Re: Who uses Python?

On Jun 5, 12:37 am, walterbyrd <walterb...@ina me.comwrote:

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 "programmin g" 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..GU I development..Au tomation/Regression
test-suite
development..Te xt/XML processing..web site Scrapping/
Scrawling..Gami ng..etc..

[Grant Edwards]

Re: Who uses Python?

On 2007-06-06, Vijayendra Bapte <vijayendra.bap te@gmail.comwro te:

Python is a rapid application development language..we uses it
every where.. in web application development..GU I
development..Au tomation/Regression test-suite
development..Te xt/XML processing..web site 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

[half.italian@gmail.com]

Re: Who uses Python?

On Jun 4, 1:47 pm, Mark Carter <m...@privacy.n etwrote:

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.