PSA: Never Code in Python Programming Language

[Cyr]

I like python myself.

I use it for test scripts and other on the fly engineering uses. For that it really is ideal.

That said I would not use it to code anything complicated as I prefer other languages for those tasks.

[krogyy]

also facebook was developed in Python afaik

I think you're doing it wrong.

Python's fast enough for virtually anything except truly high-performance software (real-time stock trading, some scientific computing, cutting-edge 3D games, etc.)

last i heard Python was close to be the de-facto language for stock trading... but i may remember wrong.

And if worse comes to worst, profile your application to find out what's taking up the biggest chunk of time (likely a nested loop somewhere with significant calculation or I/O in the inner loop) and rewrite just the inner loop in C. Python has great C-interop.

this. write the heavy stuff in C and the rest in Python to optimize development time.

[joueur]

I know a Python programmer, he's an old man with lung cancer (smoker).

[Truga]

Yes they would...

CCP's commercial success today is built on the single decision of selecting Stackless Python as our foundation.
-- Hilmar Veigar Petursson, CEO of CCP Games.

I'm sure I read something similar about google way back when.