[python-advocacy] You're Already Using Python

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Tue Mar 7 07:03:35 EST 2006


Google is into Python.  I don't know exactly which parts of the system 
are written in it (or perhaps were in early versions), but it's worth 
doing some research there.

RedHat also uses it for their installer, Anaconda (notice the clever 
python tie-in on the name)
http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/anaconda-installer/



On Mar 6, 2006, at 10:59 PM, Catherine Devlin wrote:

> I gave a small Python introduction in January, and one of my slides
> was a list of well-known programs written in Python.  I hoped to help
> the audience realize just how solid and well-established Python is by
> letting them see that tools they already rely on were created with it.
>
> I'm sure my list could have been longer, though,  Can people help add
> to this list?
>
>  -    MailMan
>  -    BitTorrent
>  -    MoinMoin
>  -    yum
>  -    SpamBayes
>  -    ClamWin
>  -    Many parts of the Ubuntu project (but I'd like details on which 
> ones)
>
> Related: software that wasn't written in Python, but that you can
> script in Python:
> Gimp
> Civilization IV
>
> --
> - Catherine
> http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/
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