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Things I didn’t know about Python

  • Google makes extensive use of Python in its web search system, and employs Python’s creator.

  • The YouTube video sharing service is largely written in Python.

  • The popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing system is a Python program.

  • Intel, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Seagate, Qualcomm, and IBM use Python for hardware testing.

  • Industrial Light & Magic, Pixar, and others use Python in the production of movie animation.

  • JPMorgan Chase, UBS, Getco, and Citadel apply Python for financial market forecasting.

  • NASA, Los Alamos, Fermilab, JPL, and others use Python for scientific programming tasks.

  • iRobot uses Python to develop commercial robotic vacuum cleaners.

  • ESRI uses Python as an end-user customization tool for its popular GIS mapping products.

  • The NSA uses Python for cryptography and intelligence analysis.

  • The IronPort email server product uses more than 1 million lines of Python code to do its job.

  • The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project builds its user interface and activity model in Python.

That typing “import this“ on the Python shell would spill out the “The Zen of Python”:

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you’re Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea — let’s do more of those!

Source:

Learning Python, 3rd Edition

by Mark Lutz

Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.

Pub Date: July 16, 2008

Print ISBN-13: 978-0-596-51398-6

New year, new start, new job

Has been almost a full week since I left my old job at the airport and started a new one at the university.

I had so many meetings that was almost overwhelming… simply different and interesting, since I didn’t have anything like this in previous jobs.

There are a lot of new concepts to grasp and I also have to give a good brush-up on my ‘basic’ Python skills.

This is the time to take my “programmer out of the box” let her breath and charge her with all the new knowledge and test the old-dusty lines of code still existing in her “computational brain”.

Just now I’m installing the Sun VirtualBox in my laptop (since my previous desktop is almost empty now) and I will try to install some new shiny toys like Fedora and other linux versions.

I’m also checking some documentation on the Python website.

I will probably start a new blog, completely work-related to help documenting steps of my development.

Last, but not least, I’m very happy with the changes. The environment is relaxed but very professional. Common sense is applied all the way and you feel part of something bigger, and with a purpose.

I am very greatful to a friend that help me and somehow look after me during the process… from the start: letting me know about the vacancy, references, guiding me throught it. THANK YOU! you know who you are! 🙂