On Jul 29, 9:01 pm, lipska the kat <lip...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Pythoners > > Firstly, thanks to those on the tutor list who answered my questions. > > I'm trying to understand where Python fits into the set of commonly > available, commercially used languages of the moment. > > My most recent experience is with Java. The last project I was involved > with included 6775 java source files containing 1,145,785 lines of code. > How do I know this? because I managed to cobble together a python script > that walks the source tree and counts the lines of code. It ignores > block and line comments and whitespace lines so I'm fairly confident > it's an accurate total. It doesn't include web interface files (mainly > .jsp and HTML) or configuration files (XML, properties files and what > have you). In fact it was remarkably easy to do this in python which got > me thinking about how I could use the language in a commercial environment. > > I was first attracted to python by it's apparent 'Object Orientedness' I > soon realised however that by looking at it in terms of the language I > know best I wasn't comparing like with like. Once I had 'rebooted the > bioware' I tried to approach python with an open mind and I have to say > it's growing on me. > > The questions I have are ... > > How is python used in the real world. > What sized projects are people involved with > Are applications generally written entirely in python or is it more > often used for a subset of functionality.
I think when people talk of scripting this area tends to get missed: (Or if someone mentioned it, I missed it :-) ) http://wiki.python.org/moin/AppsWithPythonScripting -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
