Is python for me?

[rodmc]

dakman at gmail.com wrote:

> By large I mean an application with intensive operations, such as a
> fancy GUI maybe a couple of threads, accessing a database, etc.

I am still fairly new to Python, I only started using it at the start
of this year and then stopped for a while. However the project I
undertook at the start of the year built a system using the
technologies above, in addition it used SVG graphics, Jabber Instant
messaging and the windows API. All of these were built within threads
and used a client/server architecture.  I have also built some small
wxPython based GUI's.

Overall I found Python ideal for the task, both in terms of development
time and reliability - although my knowledge of the Windows API was not
what it should have been (I mainly used Linux/Mac OS X user) so I
experienced a few problems. Also there was a lack of good online docs
about Python based Windows API calls.

You can interface to a few databases very easily including MySQL and
SQLite. I have been using the latter recently for my task and it works
very well. Also I have found that using Stackless Python drastically
improves the reliability of thread based applications. Also performance
"can" be substantially improved by using the Psyco library, although I
have know it to make things worse.

Overall my experience of Python was very positive and this was in no
small part due to the help I received from people here.

I hope this helps.

Best,

Rod