I tend to agree with some earlier poster that if you use Python you are, in a sense, a programmer :o)
But seriously, we use Python for controlling fully automated logistics solutions (conveyors and stacker cranes), for generating PLC code etc etc. We are also about to start using FactoryCAD (a thingy from UGS to run on top af AutoCAD) in which we have "intelligent" objects. These objects have action code and FactoryCAD contains an embedded Python interpreter. Our mech engineers thus write (although a bit simple but still..) Python to make things work :o) We further have generators of mechanical assemblies in SolidEdge. We use a rule based approach and both the configuration files and the rule base are in Python. Our Mech engineers maintain that too. My two cent.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
