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From: wesc at rocketmail.com (Wesley J. Chun)
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 22:43:36 GMT
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Subject: what do you do with Python
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References: <3714C9EA.86C0A4E@earthlink.net> <199904142107.XAA19293@axil.hvision.nl>
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Message-ID: <7f8eem$nak$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
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In article <199904142107.XAA19293 at axil.hvision.nl>,
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"Hans Nowak" <ivnowa at hvision.nl> wrote:
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> On 14 Apr 99, Ce'Nedra took her magical amulet and heard susan e paolini say:
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>
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> >I never see jobs with Python advertised so what is it that Python does?
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hi susan,
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yes, you have to still look somewhat *deep* to find jobs with "python*
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there, but they *are* there. contracting jobs as well as full-time.
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in fact, my group at work is hiring someone where python would be a
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good skill to have (although unfortunately not a full-time python job!)
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> Hmm, seriously though, it's good for a lot of things. I'm sure that there are
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> lots of people around who can explain it better than I can, but I'll give it
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> a try anyway. Python is a highly flexible and dynamic language, useful for
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> programs ranging from simple scripts to large projects (for instance, the
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> Grail web browser). It's also very readable and thus maintainable. It
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> provides ways for object-oriented, procedural and even functional programming
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> (to some extent). If Python itself doesn't do what you want, you can extend
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> it in C, or possibly another language if your platform allows it.
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it is esp. great for when c/c++/java is too "heavy" to use,
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but shell scripts, etc., are too weak to handle. it's the
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perfect, "in-between" language!
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>
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> Myself, I'm using it for just about everything now. I wrote a Magic the
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> Gathering database & search engine, a Vedic astrology program, a board game,
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> a signature file generator, a spell checker, a card game, an ftp thingy, etc.
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> etc. and *lots* of little scripts to make life easier.
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stuff we have done with python... let's see, lots of scripts
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as mentioned above, software that manages all the dirty nightly
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tasks, statistics gathering programs, schedule-management stuff,
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hardware monitoring systems, web-based email systems :-), etc.
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some day soon, not only will you *see* python in the job descrip-
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tion, but it will also be "required." :*)
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-wesley
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------------------------------------------------------------------------
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"A computer never does what you want... only what you tell it."
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Wesley J. Chun <wesc at rocketmail.com>
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