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  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...Python Conference, San Jose, Ca., Oct. 1997, pp. 11-20. [Hugunin2] Jim Hugunin. JPython Update. Invited talk, 7th International Python Conference. Houston, Tex., Nov. 1998. PowerPoint slides: http://www.jpython.org/jpython-talk-1.ppt [Jackson] Daniel Jackson and Allison Waingold. Lightweight Extraction of Object Models from Bytecode. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, Los Angeles, Ca., May 1999. [JPython] http://www.jpython.org/ [Know...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...PythonCard, a rapid GUI development tool based on the wxPython GUI framework. Inspired by Apple's HyperCard, PythonCard was impressive in its ability to quickly and easily create a responsive cross-platform GUI. Implemented in Python The LoveIntros implementors chose Python for its expressive, easy-to-maintain nature and its rich set of built-in libraries and excellent third-party modules. Java and Jython, the Java-based implementation of the Python programming language, were both considered a...

  • Applications for Python

    ...Python Python is used in many application domains. Here's a sampling. The Python Package Index lists thousands of third party modules for Python. Web and Internet Development Python offers many choices for web development: Frameworks such as Django and Pyramid. Micro-frameworks such as Flask and Bottle. Advanced content management systems such as Plone and django CMS. Python's standard library supports many Internet protocols: HTML and XML JSON E-mail processing. Support for FTP, IMAP, ...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python From the Start Journyx Timesheet has been using Python from the beginning. Curt Finch chose Python initially on the recommendation of a friend, Steve Madere, who had founded Dejanews.com (now a part of Google). Describing the rationale for his choice, Curt said "I looked at Java and C and came to the conclusion that 1 line of Python is 10 lines of Java or 100 lines of C. Developers write code at basically a constant rate so I chose Python which was (and is) the highest level language...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python was discovered quite early when a member of the development team read about Python in a computer magazine. After some initial experimentation there were really no other contenders. Python had it all. It was a beautiful programming language that was extensible, embeddable, platform independent, and had no license cost. When it came to incorporate Python into the Tribon software, we found the integration to be quite easy and problem-free, and it was achieved with very little effort. The res...

  • Glue It All Together With Python

    ...Python website http://www.python.org. Like Tcl, Python is easily extensible with C/C++/Java code, and easily embeddable in applications. Python even uses Tk, the Tcl GUI toolkit, for a de-facto standard portable GUI toolkit. Unlike Tcl, however, Python supports object-oriented programming. Python programmers can create classes, use multiple inheritance, define methods, overload operators, and so on. Python's Strengths Syntactically, Python code looks like executable pseudo cod...

  • Quotes about Python

    ...Python is a critical ingredient in this high performance system. IronPort's suite of products contains over a million lines of Python. The PSF is an invaluable resource that helps keep Python on the cutting edge." EVE Online "Python enabled us to create EVE Online, a massive multiplayer game, in record time. The EVE Online server cluster runs over 50,000 simultaneous players in a shared space simulation, most of which is created in Python. The flexibilities of Python have enabled us ...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python: Automatically calculate image sizes? The Python Imaging Library does this with ease. Parse XML files? There are several XML parsers available in Python. Load and store XML to and from databases? The Python DB-API is standardized and modules exist for MySQL, Postgres, Interbase, Oracle, ODBC, Sybase, and others. Fetch XML from the web? Python's urlparse and urllib standard libraries were made for that. Handle Unicode? Python 2.0 fully supports Unicode out of the box. Implementing th...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python? Python was not our first choice as the main programming language it was a coincidence. When we started our project we was very proficient in Perl and completely unaware of Python: so we chose Perl. We discovered Python when we decided that we had to substitute the PerlTK user interface with a Web-based one. We found Zope, and after some attempts to integrate Perl with Zope, we switched to Python. To make a log story short, at the end we dropped Zope but kept using Python (and rewrote the...

  • EDU-SIG: Python in Education

    ...Python. It allows Python to talk to SDL, a cross-platform, multimedia library. Because it needs to be compiled for each platform and each Python version, there can be a lag when a new Python version comes along. pyglet is the newcomer, based on OpenGL. Because it is a pure Python package, it can be used as is even when a new Python version is released (except for the Python 2 to Python 3 transition). Miscellaneous Python for secretaries: A resource site aimed at showing business users how t...

  • A Journey to Python

    ...PythonUK, EuroPython, PyCon, OSCON, and many Italian open-source ones. It's also through Python that I got back in touch with a woman, Anna, whom I had known years before but had lost contact with. She was studying Python and recognizing my name mailed me to ask me for some help. She's now my wife, and became the first woman member of the PSF. We did the second edition of the Python Cookbook together, and although she's not officially an author of the second edition of Python in a Nutshell, s...

  • Proposed Improvements to Module Cleanup

    ...Python 1.5.1. Contents: Algorithms Motivation Problems and Questions Revised version Based on some comments I received and some more thinking, I've changed this a bit since my web posting on this subject. Significant Changes are indicated in the text by [italicized remarks in square brackets]. Algorithms When a Python interpreter is deleted, its variables and modules are "cleared carefully" in a partially specified order. The operation "clear carefully" is define...

  • Donation Drive

    ...python.org website and the Python Package Index (PyPI) that hosts thousands of third-party modules for Python. The PSF was just awarded $170,000 grant from Mozilla Open Source Program to improve the sustainability of PyPI. The Community Service Awards for 2017 were given to 6 individuals who have contributed to the scientific Python community, iPython, JuPyter, pandas, twisted, and Python 3, in addition to those who organized and chaired Python events. The 2017 Distinguished Service Awar...

  • Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

    ...Python to your boss and encourage its use in internal projects. A company's use of Python in software testing, build scripting, and intranet applications is often followed by use of Python in its core products. Support your local Python user group, or start a new group in your area: http://wiki.python.org/moin/LocalUserGroups Attend or help out with your regional Python conference: http://www.python.org/community/workshops/ Work on Python or its standard libraries: http://www.python.org/dev/ No...

  • Archive 2018: Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

    ...Python to your boss and encourage its use in internal projects. A company's use of Python in software testing, build scripting, and intranet applications is often followed by use of Python in its core products. Support your local Python user group, or start a new group in your area: http://wiki.python.org/moin/LocalUserGroups Attend or help out with your regional Python conference: http://www.python.org/community/workshops/ Work on Python or its standard libraries: http://www.python.org/dev/ No...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0b1

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    Released: May 7, 2025

    Only one day late, welcome to the first beta! This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b1, is the first of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features …

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  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...Python] http://www.python.org/jpython/ [Logo] http://el.www.media.mit.edu/groups/logo-foundation/ [LogoMation] http://www.magicsquare.com/LM2/ [Lutz] Mark Lutz. Programming Python. O'Reilly, 1996. [OpenSource] http://www.opensource.org/ [Python] http://www.python.org/ [TeachScheme] http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/Teaching/ [Watters] Aaron Watters, Guido van Rossum, Jim Ahlstrom. Internet Programming with Python. MIS Press/Henry Holt, 1996.

  • Grants - Frequently Asked Questions

    ...Python User Group (PUG) website hosting costs? A. The Python Software Foundation (PSF) covers website hosting costs for approved fiscal sponsored Python User Groups or events. If you are developing a hosting or event advertising plan for your PUG, please research the following open source options before applying for a grant: Oregon State University's Open Source Lab (OSU OSL) hosting services: the PSF has a partnership with OSU OSL for website and server hosting for free or discounted for open ...

  • Debugging Reference Count Problems

    Debugging Reference Count Problems Warning This page stays here for historical reasons and it may contain outdated or incorrect information. Debugging Reference Count Problems From: Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> To: python-list@cwi.nl Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 11:09:40 -0400 Mike Fletcher wrote a number of posts about debugging C code that bombs, probably because of reference count problems. His approach to debugging this problem seems typical, but I thin...

  • 2012-11-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2012-November/019827.html Outreach and Education Committee: http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2012-November/019692.html PyCon Chair Report: http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2012-November/019828.html / http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2012-November/author.html PSF Event Coordinator Report: http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2012-November/019844.html Administrator Report: http://mail.python.org/mailma...

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