Commercial Uses
- CCP hf uses Stackless Python in both its server and client side applications for its MMO Eve Online
- Google uses Python for many tasks including the backends of web apps such as Google Groups, Gmail, and Google Maps, as well as for some of its search-engine internals
- NASA is using Python to implement a CAD/CAE/PDM repository and model management, integration, and transformation system which will be the core infrastructure for its next-generation collaborative engineering environment
- reddit was originally written in Common Lisp, but was rewritten in Python in 2005
- Yahoo! Groups uses Python "to maintain its discussion groups"
- YouTube uses Python "to produce maintainable features in record times, with a minimum of developers"
- Enthought uses python as the main language for countless custom applications in Geophysics, Financial applications, Astrophysics, simulations for consumer product companies, ...
- EDF uses Python for their finite element solver Code Aster in combination with Fortran
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