usage of python

[Rajarshi]

Hi, I teach an introductory programming course in Python. As part of
the introduction I'd like to highlight the usage of Python in
industry. The idea is to show that there are big players using Python
for a variety of tasks. Given that the students come from a variety of
backgrounds and are not necessarily 'hackers', I'm trying to look for
examples with a bit of wow-factor.

Is there any list with people/groups/companies using Python for
impressive things?

Any pointers would be appreciated

Thanks,
Rajarshi

[Mike Driscoll]

Re: usage of python

On May 13, 12:10 pm, Rajarshi <rajarshi.g...@ gmail.comwrote:

Hi, I teach an introductory programming course in Python. As part of
the introduction I'd like to highlight the usage of Python in
industry. The idea is to show that there are big players using Python
for a variety of tasks. Given that the students come from a variety of
backgrounds and are not necessarily 'hackers', I'm trying to look for
examples with a bit of wow-factor.
>
Is there any list with people/groups/companies using Python for
impressive things?
>
Any pointers would be appreciated
>
Thanks,
Rajarshi

Take a look at http://python.org/

It lists various companies that use Python. There's also Sourceforge,
which you can use to list a lot of projects made with Python.
Spambayes and bittorrent are a couple of the more "famous" ones.

Mike

[globalrev]

Re: usage of python

On 13 Maj, 19:10, Rajarshi <rajarshi.g...@ gmail.comwrote:

Hi, I teach an introductory programming course in Python. As part of
the introduction I'd like to highlight the usage of Python in
industry. The idea is to show that there are big players using Python
for a variety of tasks. Given that the students come from a variety of
backgrounds and are not necessarily 'hackers', I'm trying to look for
examples with a bit of wow-factor.
>
Is there any list with people/groups/companies using Python for
impressive things?
>
Any pointers would be appreciated
>
Thanks,
Rajarshi

nasa, google, industrial light and magic(starwars second trilogy) ,
astra zeneca, reddit.

[Terry Reedy]

Re: usage of python


"Rajarshi" <rajarshi.guha@ gmail.comwrote in message
news:bac50564-a924-4a10-a64a-54caf0125b29@8g 2000hse.googleg roups.com...
| Hi, I teach an introductory programming course in Python. As part of
| the introduction I'd like to highlight the usage of Python in
| industry. The idea is to show that there are big players using Python
| for a variety of tasks. Given that the students come from a variety of
| backgrounds and are not necessarily 'hackers', I'm trying to look for
| examples with a bit of wow-factor.
|
| Is there any list with people/groups/companies using Python for
| impressive things?
|
| Any pointers would be appreciated

Besides the other comments, there was a thread about a month ago that give
more python success stories (perhaps that was the title).

[Christian Heimes]

Re: usage of python

Rajarshi schrieb:

Hi, I teach an introductory programming course in Python. As part of
the introduction I'd like to highlight the usage of Python in
industry. The idea is to show that there are big players using Python
for a variety of tasks. Given that the students come from a variety of
backgrounds and are not necessarily 'hackers', I'm trying to look for
examples with a bit of wow-factor.
>
Is there any list with people/groups/companies using Python for
impressive things?
>
Any pointers would be appreciated

Additionally to the other URLs:

http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture

http://highscalability.com/google-architecture

http://www.ohloh.net/projects/python

Christian

[Gabriel Genellina]

Re: usage of python

En Tue, 13 May 2008 18:37:10 -0300, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.e du>
escribió:

"Rajarshi" <rajarshi.guha@ gmail.comwrote in message
news:bac50564-a924-4a10-a64a-54caf0125b29@8g 2000hse.googleg roups.com...
| Hi, I teach an introductory programming course in Python. As part of
| the introduction I'd like to highlight the usage of Python in
| industry. The idea is to show that there are big players using Python
| for a variety of tasks. Given that the students come from a variety of
| backgrounds and are not necessarily 'hackers', I'm trying to look for
| examples with a bit of wow-factor.
>
Besides the other comments, there was a thread about a month ago that
give
more python success stories (perhaps that was the title).

Yes, this was the thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1bd91aca0c86c57c/

--
Gabriel Genellina

[Ivan Illarionov]

Re: usage of python

On 13 ÍÁÊ, 21:10, Rajarshi <rajarshi.g...@ gmail.comwrote:

Hi, I teach an introductory programming course in Python. As part of
the introduction I'd like to highlight the usage of Python in
industry. The idea is to show that there are big players using Python
for a variety of tasks. Given that the students come from a variety of
backgrounds and are not necessarily 'hackers', I'm trying to look for
examples with a bit of wow-factor.
>
Is there any list with people/groups/companies using Python for
impressive things?
>
Any pointers would be appreciated
>
Thanks,
Rajarshi

Hi, Rajarshi,

Besides the above comments, I want to highlight Django and other
Python web frameworks and their ability to build simple dynamic web
sites extremely fast.

http://www.djangoproject.com/

-- Ivan

[Rajarshi]

Re: usage of python

Thanks to the all posters. This will be very useful!

[afrobeard]

Re: usage of python

On May 14, 9:13 pm, Rajarshi <rajarshi.g...@ gmail.comwrote:

Thanks to the all posters. This will be very useful!

No Problem :). Let me know if you need any code snippets.

P.S. I wouldn't mind working with you to prepare introductory material
and examples for beginners if it becomes public property.

[Aahz]

Re: usage of python

In article <bac50564-a924-4a10-a64a-54caf0125b29@8g 2000hse.googleg roups.com>,
Rajarshi <rajarshi.guha@ gmail.comwrote:

>
>Is there any list with people/groups/companies using Python for
>impressive things?
>
>Any pointers would be appreciated

And one more:

http://www.pythonology.com/

--
Aahz (aahz@pythoncra ft.com) <* http://www.pythoncraft.com/

Need a book? Use your library!

[Grant Edwards]

Re: usage of python

On 2008-05-13, Rajarshi <rajarshi.guha@ gmail.comwrote:

Hi, I teach an introductory programming course in Python. As part of
the introduction I'd like to highlight the usage of Python in
industry. The idea is to show that there are big players using Python
for a variety of tasks. Given that the students come from a variety of
backgrounds and are not necessarily 'hackers', I'm trying to look for
examples with a bit of wow-factor.
>
Is there any list with people/groups/companies using Python for
impressive things?

Have you heard of a company called Google? They use Python a
lot.

Another company you may have heard of is IBM. I have a laptop
made by them. It came with Python pre-installed because a
bunch of the system utilities are written in Python. I think
I've heard that HP and Compaq do the same (I can't verify it
personally).

If you've heard of Linux, there's a company called RedHat that
wrote their system installer and packaging/system-admin stuff
in Python.

--
Grant

[Paddy]

Re: usage of python

On May 13, 6:10 pm, Rajarshi <rajarshi.g...@ gmail.comwrote:

Hi, I teach an introductory programming course in Python. As part of
the introduction I'd like to highlight theusage of Pythonin
industry. The idea is to show that there are big players using Python
for a variety of tasks. Given that the students come from a variety of
backgrounds and are not necessarily 'hackers', I'm trying to look for
examples with a bit of wow-factor.
>
Is there any list with people/groups/companies using Python for
impressive things?
>
Any pointers would be appreciated
>
Thanks,
Rajarshi

Ciranova uses Python and manages to allow its customers to migrate
their Designs from a proprietary format that dominates the market
using Python: http://www.ciranova.com/index.html

- Paddy.