YouTube written in Python

[John Nagle]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> In a thread on the PyDev list, Guido van Rossum today wrote:
> 
>>And I just found out (after everyone else probably :-) that YouTube is
>>almost entirely written in Python.

    Probably just the web page maintenance system is in Python.
I doubt that actual video passes through Python at any point.
Transcoding in Python would take forever.

				John Nagle