What is the main use of python ? What programs can we make?

Answer 1

Almost any type of program as others have stated.

Answer 2

Python is a general purpose programing language, you can make largest varity of programs using it.

Answer 3

https://www.python.org/about/success/

Answer 4

You should pick your tools based on what you want to make, not the other way around

Answer 5

PYTHON was used to make
1)portable grpahical user
interfaces
2)data base access programs
3)web based systems
4)operating systems interfaces
5)games
6)python was used for network scripting
7)python was used for test pattern matching
8)python was used for numeric programming
Python and its libraries
1)the NUMPY replaces the MATLAB
2)by SOAP,XML-RPC we can interact over networks
3)PYTHON had the special API for GUI making which was TKINTER,WXPYTHON,PYQT,PYGTK,PYWIN32,IRONPYTHON,JPYPE
4)the MOD_PYTHON package was used for server side templating
5)python provides web development frameworks such as DJANGO,TURBOGEARS,WEB2PY,PYLONS,WEBWARE
6)component integrarion also possible in python
CYTHON(C+PYTHON)
JYTHON(JAVA+PYTHON)
Ironpython(.Netbased)
7)for data base programming
We have
Zodb,durus,pymongo,
8)for game and multimedia we have pygame,cgkit,pyglet,pysoy,panda3d
9)for serial port communications we had PYSERIAL
10)for image processing we have
Pillow
Pyopengl
Blender
Maya
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Answer 6

11)for robot control we had
PYRO
12)For matural language analysis we have
NLTK
13)for spereadsheet function and macro programming
PYXLL
DATA NITRO
14)for media file processing
PYMEDIA
ID3
Pil/pillow
15)for aAI
PYBRAIN
MILK
16)for system programming
PYCLIPS
Pyke
Pyrolog
Pydatalog
17)for network monitoring
Zenoss
18)for design and modeling
PytohnCAD
Python occ
Free cad
19)Document processing and generation
Reportlab,sphinx,cheetah,pypdf
20)for data visualization
Mayavi,matplotlib,vtk,vpython
21)for XML parsing
Xml
Xmlrpclib
22)for data mining
Orange framework
Patrern bundle
Scrapy
Custom code

For every requirement there is an library in the PYTHON

Answer 7

Few companies and their PYTHON usage
1)GOOGLE-WEV SEARCH SYSTEMS
2)YOUTUBE-VIDEO SHARING SERVICE
3)DROPBOX-STORAGE SERVICE CODES BOTH ITS SERVER AND CLIENT SIDE
4)PIXAR,MAGIC,INDUSTRIALLIGHT:for animations making
5)ESRI:GI MAPPING PRODUCTS
6)google app engine web developmemt framework uses python as application language
7)Iron port email-server had nearly 1million python lines init
8)irobot uses for developing of commercial and military robotic devices
9)intel,cisco,hp,seagate uses python for hardware testing
10)jpmorgan,chase,ubs,getco uses python for financial market forecasting
11)nasa,losalamos,fermilab,jpl uses python for scientific programming

Answer 8

used for data science..

Answer 9

* little terminal scripts

* simplified APIs for artists and other non programmer users

* real-time (not the most performant)

* re-use Python libraries (here in SL got an example with ML and DS courses)

* an option to those who want code but not dig so deep in the inner mechanics of programming