Does your company use Python? The Python Software Foundation wants to know.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHlwaUxIY2g0ZXpUMk4tREZDSTY3bkE6MA..

by VanL • 17 years ago

41 21 17 years ago

spreadsheets.google.com

koenbok• 17 years ago

If anyone involved is reading this, it would be nice to have an option for the Netherlands. You know, where Python was _invented_ ;-)

paulgb• 17 years ago

I see "The Netherlands/Belgium" on the list.

edit: Saw VanL's comment, looks like he meant to reply to this thread. That was a fast fix.

VanL3• 17 years ago

<blink>. Missed that. The form has been updated.

plinkplonk5• 17 years ago

I wish there were good companies in India using Python. Most companies claiming to do so just tack on Python to a long list of languages they use and don't really use it significantly. I know great programmers who would kill for a decent paying job in Django/Python.

The "do crap work outsourced to India" idea is what the Indian software industry is built around. Lots of java/dotnet.Some Ruby on Rails, thanks to the marketing of RoR. Very little python. :(

donw• 17 years ago

Not to sound like, well, everybody else on the site, but if you think there's a market for it, why not start up an Indian Python consultancy?

Hell, even "Indian Python" sounds cool.

kirubakaran• 17 years ago

Or "Indian Rock Python"

"One of the unique features of the Rock pythons of India is that they can raise their body temperature above the ambient level, through muscular contractions." http://www.iloveindia.com/wildlife/indian-snakes/python.html

visitor4rmindia4• 17 years ago

We are 100% Indian product company - the product is Indian and built for the Indian market (although we have customers in 80 countries).

I would classify us as a "very good company" and we use python for our scripting needs though our major work is in C/C++. Does that make you feel a bit better? :-)

plinkplonk5• 17 years ago

"I would classify us as a "very good company" and we use python for our scripting needs though our major work is in C/C++. Does that make you feel a bit better? :-)"

Which company is this anyway? What is your product?

nibrahim• 17 years ago

While not as much as in the west, there are plently of companies that use Python in India and not all of them "do crap work outsourced to India". Here's a list

http://wiki.python.org/moin/BangPypers/PythonCompaniesInIndi...

A local user group in Bangalore is organising the first Indian PyCon right now and we've talked to many companies (some Indian and some not) about sponsorships because they use Python.

plinkplonk5• 17 years ago

You say,

"there are plently of companies that use Python in India and not all of them "do crap work outsourced to India"."

Interesting. I see Tavant (outsourcing company), servelots (looking for people with java sql tomcat -hardly indicates a Python focus), moog (nothing very python specific and seems to follow the "offshore India dev centre" model - high probability of dealing with crap work the folks in the West don't want to do), Trellisys (outsourcing) , DIQ (I can't even make out what they do. Seems like a company run by a bunch of jokers, see their blog!).

Can you point out any companies working primarily with python don't do outsourcing, and have sophisticated python based products in that list? If you can't doesn't that just prove my point?

sri• 17 years ago

how do we know it is by the python software foundation?

VanL3• 17 years ago

Hmm. It is, but right now I can't prove it. I will see if we can get the survey promoted on the PSF blog or on python.org.

Update: See the front page of PyCon.org: http://us.pycon.org/2010/

VanL3• 17 years ago

Update 2: See also the PSF blog: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2009/08/in-search-of-success-sto...

CaptSolo• 17 years ago

a good idea.

but there are some countries/regions still missing from the "Regions" drop-down list which, being a required field, might prevent people from these countries filling out the form.

e.g., Ireland, Greece, ...

bmelton• 17 years ago

My submission, with some information omitted:

As a federal IT consultant, I have built a number of utilities for <a government entity> that either use Python directly or leverage bits of Python code in order to make another product work. One interesting bit in particular, I whipped up a 13 line Python script to monitor each side of a load balanced cluster for uptime, properly shutting down the relevant Apache instance of a side if its Weblogic portal instance was not responding, and redirecting traffic to the other side. This need was present as there was no facility in either the multi-thousand dollar Cisco Content Service Switches fronting the servers, nor the multi-million dollar AquaLogic portal behind them.

Does your company use Python? The Python Software Foundation wants to know.

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