= Get Impressed =

Heard about Python but doesn't know what is it or what is it capable of? Then, get impressed.

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== Python for Web ==
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The future of all applications is on the Web and Python couldn't stay out of this trend. There are at least a dozen of frameworks for Web development in Python and certainly at least one of them will serve your needs. The movie presents a comparison made between several Web development frameworks of several languages. Among those frameworks, it was evaluated [http://www.zope.com Zope]/[http://www.plone.com Plone] and [http://www.turbogears.com Turbogears].

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... [http://www.djangoproject.com Django], [http://pylonshq.com/ Pylons] and others that you can find on [wiki:PythonForWeb].
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== Python for Enterprise ==

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Brazil is well know internationally for the quality of his enterprise management softwares. Python is a perfect programming language for this sort of development, because it is modern and provides access to a wide range of powerful frameworks and libraries that speeds up development. This is the case for the software development company [http://www.async.com.br Async] in São Carlos (São Paulo, Brazil), that developed [http://www.stoq.com.br Stoq], a management system for commercial enterprises, using [http://www.python.org Python], [http://www.pygtk.org PyGTK] for the graphical interface, [http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi Kiwi] for MVC, [http://gazpacho.sicem.biz/ Gazpacho] to design the graphical interface, [http://www.sqlobject.org/ SQLObject] for Object Relational Management and [http://www.postgresql.org/ PostgreSQL] as database.


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... [http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ SQLAlchemy], [http://www.erp5.org/ ERP5], [http://www.openerp.com/ Open ERP]...
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== Python for Mobile Devices ==
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Python is so versatile that it supports development for several architectures. Currently, Python can be used from the biggest mainframes to the smallest mobile phones. In the video you can follow the development of a small prototype in [http://pys60.sourceforge.net/ Python] for a smartphone [http://www.nokia.com/ Nokia] from [http://www.s60.com/life Series 60].

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... [http://python-psp.net/trac Python for PSP], [http://pythonce.sourceforge.net/Wikka/HomePage Python for PocketPC], [http://pymaemo.garage.maemo.org/ Python for Maemo], ...
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== Python for Multimedia and Entertainment ==
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The Multimedia and Entertainment market (including Games development) have also discovered Python and currently it is being used for everything from basic scripting to development of multimedia players.

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... [http://www.pygame.org/ PyGame], [http://pymedia.org/ PyMedia], [http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/ PyOpenGL], [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-python.html Python GStreamer]...
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== Python for Science ==
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Combining Python's versatility with scientify libraries provides a powerful combo to be used on a wide variety of scientific areas like biology, chemestry and mathematics. Some scientists and engineers are also substituting expensive tools for Python combined with some other libraries found in [http://www.scipy.org/ SciPy].

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... [http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ PIL], [http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page BioPython], [http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen/AstroPy.html AstroPy], ...
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== Python for Education ==
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Being easy and simple to learn, Pyhton is recommended for teachers that intend to use computers as education supporting tools. Python can be used not only for teaching program development but also for teaching other activities. That's one of the reasons that made Python part of the [http://www.laptop.org/ OLPC] development. A considerable part of the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar Sugar] environment for that platform was developed in Python.

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... [http://gcompris.net/ gCompris], [http://gvr.sourceforge.net/index.php Guido van Robot], [http://kineticskit.sourceforge.net/ KineticsKit], [http://pw1.netcom.com/~ajs/index.html PyGeo], [http://pyrorobotics.org/ Python Robotics], ...
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Now that you're impressed, GetStarted in Python's universe.
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=== Credits ===
[http://www.pythonbrasil.com.br Python Brasil]
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