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A clear and powerful object-oriented programming language, comparable to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, or Java.
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What is Python?

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Python is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Python is an open source tool with 58.8K GitHub stars and 28.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Python's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Python?

Companies
8853 companies reportedly use Python in their tech stacks, including Uber, Google, and Pinterest.

Developers
206697 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Python.

Python Integrations

Django, PyCharm, Sentry, CircleCI, and Datadog are some of the popular tools that integrate with Python. Here's a list of all 693 tools that integrate with Python.
Pros of Python
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Great libraries
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Readable code
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Beautiful code
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Rapid development
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Large community
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Open source
389
Elegant
280
Great community
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Object oriented
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Dynamic typing
77
Great standard library
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Very fast
53
Functional programming
46
Easy to learn
45
Scientific computing
35
Great documentation
28
Matlab alternative
27
Productivity
27
Easy to read
23
Simple is better than complex
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It's the way I think
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Imperative
18
Free
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Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
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Machine learning support
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Fast and simple
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Powerfull language
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Scripting
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Explicit is better than implicit
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Ease of development
9
Unlimited power
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Clear and easy and powerfull
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Import antigravity
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It's lean and fun to code
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Print "life is short, use python"
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Now is better than never
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Fast coding and good for competitions
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There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
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High Documented language
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I love snakes
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Although practicality beats purity
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Python has great libraries for data processing
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Flat is better than nested
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Great for tooling
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Rapid Prototyping
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Readability counts
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Lists, tuples, dictionaries
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Web scraping
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CG industry needs
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Great for analytics
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Socially engaged community
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Complex is better than complicated
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Multiple Inheritence
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Beautiful is better than ugly
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Plotting
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Easy to learn and use
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Import this
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Simple and easy to learn
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Many types of collections
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Easy to setup and run smooth
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If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g
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If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id
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Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
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Pip install everything
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List comprehensions
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No cruft
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Generators
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It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi
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Batteries included
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Because of Netflix
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Can understand easily who are new to programming
2
Powerful language for AI
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Should START with this but not STICK with This
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Only one way to do it
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A-to-Z
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Better outcome
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Good for hacking
2
Flexible and easy
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Slow
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Sexy af
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Securit
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Powerful
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Decisions about Python

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Python in their tech stack.

Denys
Software engineer at Typeform · | 13 upvotes · 1.7M views
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  • Go because it's easy and simple, facilitates collaboration , and also it's fast, scalable, powerful.
  • Visual Studio Code because it has one of the most sophisticated Go language support plugins.
  • Vim because it's Vim
  • Git because it's Git
  • Docker and Docker Compose because it's quick and easy to have reproducible builds/tests with them
  • Arch Linux because Docker for Mac/Win is a disaster for the human nervous system, and Arch is the coolest Linux distro so far
  • Stack Overflow because of Copy-Paste Driven Development
  • JavaScript and Python when a something needs to be coded for yesterday
  • PhpStorm because it saves me like 300 "Ctrl+F" key strokes a minute
  • cURL because terminal all the way
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Python helps us automate the tedious and has the gold standard Natural Language Processing library. Python

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Benjamin Bernard-Bouissières
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I really love Django because it is really fast to create a web application from scratch and it has a lot a facilities like the ORM or the Admin module ! The Python language is really easy to read and powerful, that's why I prefer Django over Symfony.

I use Django at work to make tools for the technicians but I also use it for me to build my personal website which I host on PythonAnywhere, and with a domain name bought on Namecheap.

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Praveen Mooli
Engineering Manager at Taylor and Francis · | 18 upvotes · 3.8M views

We are in the process of building a modern content platform to deliver our content through various channels. We decided to go with Microservices architecture as we wanted scale. Microservice architecture style is an approach to developing an application as a suite of small independently deployable services built around specific business capabilities. You can gain modularity, extensive parallelism and cost-effective scaling by deploying services across many distributed servers. Microservices modularity facilitates independent updates/deployments, and helps to avoid single point of failure, which can help prevent large-scale outages. We also decided to use Event Driven Architecture pattern which is a popular distributed asynchronous architecture pattern used to produce highly scalable applications. The event-driven architecture is made up of highly decoupled, single-purpose event processing components that asynchronously receive and process events.

To build our #Backend capabilities we decided to use the following: 1. #Microservices - Java with Spring Boot , Node.js with ExpressJS and Python with Flask 2. #Eventsourcingframework - Amazon Kinesis , Amazon Kinesis Firehose , Amazon SNS , Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda 3. #Data - Amazon RDS , Amazon DynamoDB , Amazon S3 , MongoDB Atlas

To build #Webapps we decided to use Angular 2 with RxJS

#Devops - GitHub , Travis CI , Terraform , Docker , Serverless

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Context: I wanted to create an end to end IoT data pipeline simulation in Google Cloud IoT Core and other GCP services. I never touched Terraform meaningfully until working on this project, and it's one of the best explorations in my development career. The documentation and syntax is incredibly human-readable and friendly. I'm used to building infrastructure through the google apis via Python , but I'm so glad past Sung did not make that decision. I was tempted to use Google Cloud Deployment Manager, but the templates were a bit convoluted by first impression. I'm glad past Sung did not make this decision either.

Solution: Leveraging Google Cloud Build Google Cloud Run Google Cloud Bigtable Google BigQuery Google Cloud Storage Google Compute Engine along with some other fun tools, I can deploy over 40 GCP resources using Terraform!

Check Out My Architecture: CLICK ME

Check out the GitHub repo attached

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I'm working as one of the engineering leads in RunaHR. As our platform is a Saas, we thought It'd be good to have an API (We chose Ruby and Rails for this) and a SPA (built with React and Redux ) connected. We started the SPA with Create React App since It's pretty easy to start.

We use Jest as the testing framework and react-testing-library to test React components. In Rails we make tests using RSpec.

Our main database is PostgreSQL, but we also use MongoDB to store some type of data. We started to use Redis  for cache and other time sensitive operations.

We have a couple of extra projects: One is an Employee app built with React Native and the other is an internal back office dashboard built with Next.js for the client and Python in the backend side.

Since we have different frontend apps we have found useful to have Bit to document visual components and utils in JavaScript.

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Python Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Python?
Java
Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!
R Language
R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Scala
Scala is an acronym for “Scalable Language”. This means that Scala grows with you. You can play with it by typing one-line expressions and observing the results. But you can also rely on it for large mission critical systems, as many companies, including Twitter, LinkedIn, or Intel do. To some, Scala feels like a scripting language. Its syntax is concise and low ceremony; its types get out of the way because the compiler can infer them.
Anaconda
A free and open-source distribution of the Python and R programming languages for scientific computing, that aims to simplify package management and deployment. Package versions are managed by the package management system conda.
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