I really need to come up with a project to program in Python. Several years ago, I wrote an orbital dV calculator as a first Python project in two days. The language is amazingly intuitive and didn't get in the way like so many other languages with steep learning curves do (PERL, for example).
A style guide for Python! (Saved for later) See also: Python Idioms and Efficiency Suggestions and How to become a proficient Python programmer (an annotated linklist).
Python suffers from two problems, lack of simple GUI creation, and ease of portability. Pyjamas neatly solves both problems by converting Python code to Javascript to run directly in the browser. There's even a Desktop version that compiles stand-alone applications.
From the page: "Pyjamas is a tool and framework for developing Ajax applications in Python. It contains a stand-alone Python-to-JavaScript compiler, an Ajax Framework and Widget set, and through use of these components, developers can write comprehensive applications, to run in all major web browsers, without writing a single line of JavaScript."
From the page: "Pyjamas is a tool and framework for developing Ajax applications in Python. It contains a stand-alone Python-to-JavaScript compiler, an Ajax Framework and Widget set, and through use of these components, developers can write comprehensive applications, to run in all major web browsers, without writing a single line of JavaScript."
From the site:
"SciPy is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. NumPy and SciPy are easy to use, but powerful enough to be depended upon by some of the world's leading scientists and engineers. If you need to manipulate numbers on a computer and display or publish the results, give SciPy a try!
Technological synthesis. Each hardware component is ideally suited for the task at hand, Python makes an ideal interface between them. Thanks, >msiegel!
Quick Python cheat sheet for programmers.