On Dec 22, 6:51 am, Lou Pecora <pec...@anvil.nrl.navy.mil> wrote: > In article <mailman.5967.1229898197.3487.python-l...@python.org>, > "James Mills" <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au> wrote: > > > In case anyone is not aware, Python is > > also used for heavy scientific computational > > problems, games such as Civilisation and > > others, and I believe (correct me if I"m wrong) > > it's also used by NASA. > > > --JamesMills >
i am referring mainly to Python for web applications. Python is slow. > Python has become very popular in scientific computation. You'll find > it in use lots of places (universities, national labs, defense labs). I > use it for solving partial differential equations for quantum chaos > calculations and went to C for speed up where needed using ctypes which > is very straightforward and plays nice with numpy array/matrix > libraries. I've been doing scientific programming for 30 years. Python > with C extensions and libraries is the best approach I've ever used. > Calculation speed is not a problem and the code can be "tweaked" to > increase it easily. Programming speed is incredible. I can get > substantial object oriented code up and running much faster than > anything I've ever used. > > -- > -- Lou Pecora -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
