Most Popular Scripts | Python

SPYCE is a webserver plugin that supports simple and efficient Python-based dynamic HTML scripting. Those who like Python and are familiar with JSP, or PHP, or ASP, should have a look at this engine. It allows one to generate dynamic HTML content just as easily, using Python for the dynamic parts. Its modular design makes it very flexible and extensible.

This tutorial by Devshed.com delves into Python's history, basic syntax, and concepts.

Python is the other scripting language that starts with "P". It was named for Monty Python, the comedy troupe, and references to their skits and films (most commonly to "Spam") appear frequently in Python programs. Highly popular with Linux users and in the open source community in general, Python has a number of advantages over other languages like Java and Perl, some of which will be covered in this article.

viewportfolio is a python program that allows you to track the performance of a stock portfolio you establish in a data file. It pulls quote information from Yahoo! Finance and relies on the Quote.py python module written by Jonathan Corbet (included).

NeoBoard is a Zope product that helps you create web based threaded message boards. The older version of NeoBoard was coded in PHP with MySQL. NeoBoard is reborn as a Zope product. Features: Structured Text support with rendered content caching; Collapsable threads; File attachments with automatic mime type recognition; Automatic image displaying/thumbnailing if Python Image Libary module present; Thread-wide auto mailer; Board Management delegation; Self-upgrading object instances when class definitions change; Batch action support: articles can be deleted/moved to another board in a batch.

Do you work in C, C++, or Java on large projects? This article shows how Python will give you results quicker and more reliably. Are you already scripting in a language other than Python? You'll want to see how Python's careful engineering offers an easy-to-use, interactive, clean, object-oriented, extensible, scalable language. Whatever programming you're doing now, Python can improve it.