Quote:What are some real world applications of Python?There are many some you may use daily eg YouTube,Dropbox,Spotify.
There are mix of technology/languages in these,but Python has the biggest part.
Quote:YouTube.com
"Python is fast enough for our site and allows us to produce maintainable features in record times,
with a minimum of developers," said Cuong Do, Software Architect, YouTube.com.
Quote:At Spotify the main two places we use Python are backend services and data analysis.
Python has a habit of turning up in other random places,as most of our developers are happy programming in it.
Spotify’s backend consists of many interdependent services,
connected by own messaging protocol over ZeroMQ. Around 80% of these services are written in Python.
DropBox is almost all Python.
The also have employee like Guido van Rossum creator of Python.
Quote:Dropbox and Python
99.9 % of their code is in Python. Used on the server backend; desktop client, website controller logic, API backend, and analytics.
Can't use Python on the Android due to memory constraints.
Runs on a single code base using Python. Dropbox runs on Windows, Mac, Linux using tools like PyObjs, WxPython, types, py2exe, py2app, PyWin32.
Patreon did a big change trowing out all PHP code :cool:
The whole web-site was rewritten in Flask and Python 3.
You can listen to podcast about this here.
Moving from PHP to Python 3 with Patreon