The Python distribution Continuum Analytics "Anaconda" with free and commercial licenses - “A free collection of powerful packages for Python that enables large-scale data management, analysis, and visualization for Business Intelligence, Scientific Analysis, Engineering, Machine Learning, and more”.
- Continuum Analytics "Anaconda Docs".
- Anaconda Cloud / Anaconda Nucleus.
  - Anaconda Cloud / Anaconda Nucleus "Getting Started with Anaconda Individual Edition" - Video.
- Continuum Analytics Repo - Archive.
  - Latest versions:
    - Anaconda2-2018.12-Linux-x86.sh
    - Anaconda3-2018.12-Linux-x86.sh
    - Anaconda2-2019.10-Linux-x86_64.sh
    - Anaconda2-2019.10-Windows-x86.exe
    - Anaconda2-2019.10-Windows-x86_64.exe
- Conda "Miniconda".
- Continuum Blog.
  - Continuum Blog "Python 3 support in Anaconda" - “Did you know that Anaconda has been supporting Python 3 for more than half a year?” → I was told so too on the conference “PyConDE 2013”, in 2013-10 .
- Continuum Analytics - Our Team. Technical Staff.
  - With Ilan Schnell, Continuum Analytics "Ilan", LinkedIn "Ilan Schnell", Google + "Ilan Schnell", GitHub "Ilan Schnell", speaker on the conference PyConDE 2013, an important former distribution builder of Enthought Python Distribution is now responsible for buildering “Anaconda” .
- Facebook "Continuum Analytics".
- LinkedIn "Continuum Analytics, Inc.".
- Google+ "Continuum Analytics".
- Twitter "Continuum Analytics".
- GitHub "DamnWidget/anaconda".
- Use “c:\> conda install package_name” to install packages.
  - Conda is fundamentally different from “easy_install” and “pip”. Iit is more like the linux package managers ( apt or yum ) - more binary distributions of packages. Conda can't fix known installations problems like with “PyLint”, but it can make it easier to install, since it will be more of a simple binary package - The actual work of installing has already been done.
- Bugs & repair tips:
  - “PyLint” is not included in the distribution ( though the shipped IDE “Spyder” has a non-functional menu entry “Source / Run pylint code analysis” ) and can´t be installed by well-known automatic installation processes. An installation attempt by “easy_install pylint” is aborted due to syntax errors in downloaded Python files and other faults .
  - Thanks to Ilan, since 2014-03-24, you may now use “c:\> conda install pylint” to install PyLint on Anaconda .
- Conda-Forge - “A community led collection of recipes, build infrastructure and distributions for the conda package manager”.
ActiveState.
- The commercial ActiveState "ActivePython" for Windows, Linux, MacOSX.
- The free ActiveState "ActivePython Community Edition" for Windows, Linux, MacOSX.
- ActiveState "ActivePython 2.7 User Guide".
- ActiveState "ActivePython 3.3 User Guide".

Resources

Ask Ubuntu "Installing Anaconda python on ubuntu"
- Call a fresh bash from terminal, with anaconda shell sript as parameter: “$ bash Anaconda-2.x.x-Linux-x86[_64].sh”.
- The export of Anaconda to standard Python in the path is stored in “$home/.bashrc”.

Just-commercial Distributions

Enthought, Inc..
- The discontinued just-commercial Enthought, Inc. "Enthought Python Distribution" ( EPD ) and its just-commercial successor Enthought, Inc. "Canopy".

Resources

Python Wiki "Python Distributions".

The Raspberry Platform

Hardware

See ARM Embedded Systems ( ARM7, ARM8, ARM9, ARM11, Cortex ).

Python on Raspberry

Python on MSDOS, Windows

The original Python

Python 2.7.9 ( Python 2.7.9 documentation, Python 2.7.9 documentation - Download ) and Python 3.3.5 ( Python 3.3.6 documentation, Python 3.3.6 documentation - Download ) are the latest binary editions for W2k.
- The installation of Python 3.4 aborts with the error message ”There is a problem with this Windows Installer Package. A program required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor”.
- The installation of AciveState Python 3.4.1.0 succeeds, but the installed Python.exe is no valid Win32 application for W2k.
- The Python 3 edition of “Anaconda” started with Python 3.4, so there was never a Python 3 edition based on Python 3.3.
- The installer of Python 3.5 is no valid Win32 application for W2k.
Python 2.5.4 ist the latest edition for Win98SE and WinME. Python 2.6 aborts installation by the error message ”There is a problem with the Windows Installer package. A DLL required for the install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personel or package vendor”.
- What's missing with PythonD 2.5.4 ?
  - Python v2.7.3 documentation "What’s New in Python 2.6".
  - Python v2.7.3 documentation "What’s New in Python 2.7".
Python 2.01 ist the latest edition for MS-DOS, MS-Windows 3.x.

Binary Packages for Windows

Christoph Gohlke, Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine "Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages" - “32- and 64-bit Windows binaries of many scientific open-source extension packages for the official CPython distribution of the Python programming language”.

Python for Metro

Windows Store "Python 3 For Metro".
How to get the app within Windows 8 ? Go to “Store”, search for “Python for Metro”.
Python.org "Martin von Loewis".
- Python.org "Martin von Loewis - Python 3 For Metro".
Martin von Löwis, Stack Overflow "Martin von Löwis", Gthub "Martin v. Löwis ( loewis )", Python.org Mercurial Repositories "sandbox/loewis".
PyVideo "Martin v. Löwis" - Video “Metro-Programmierung mit Python”.

Python for 386-DOS

PythonD 2.4.2 Release 1.0 - “A 32-bit, multi-threaded, networking- and OpenGL-enabled Python interpreter for DOS and Windows”.
What's missing with PythonD 2.4.2 ?

Resources

Application Execution in Taint Mode

Taint mode → See Perl 1/2.
Juanjo Conti.
- Juanjo Conti "Taint Mode".
- Juanjo Conti SVN "dyntaint" - Download.
- Juanjo Conti "A Taint Mode for Python via a Library" - Download.
- Slides Juanjo Conti "Talk: Taint Mode for Python via a Library (slides)", 2010-07-06.
- Slides Juanjo Conti "Charla: Taint Mode en Python", 2009-09-07.
- Pythonsecurity "Taint Mode For Python".
GitHub "felixgr/pytaint" - “The goal of pytaint project is to provide a taint tracking mechanism for Python by modifying the CPython interpreter and adding a module with convenience functions. Taint tracking is a feature which allows to monitor the flow of untrusted data across the application and preventing from using it in sensitive parts without proper sanitization”.
EN.Wikipedia "Taint checking".

IDEs

Free and OpenSource IDEs & IDE Plugins & GUI Designers

See Python 9/9 - IDEs & GUI Designers.

Project Setup & Project Distribution

Project Setup Tools

Europython 2014 Talks, Session "How to Setup a new Python Project".
- GitHub "Blue Yonder GmbH".
  - GitHub "blue-yonder/pyscaffold" - “Python project generator with batteries included”.
    - ReadTheDocs "PyScaffold".
      - “PyScaffold assumes that you have Git installed and set up on your PC, meaning at least your name and email configured”.
      - On Windows, with Python 2.7, the setup installation aborts with
        File "c:\temp\easy_install-jy_ycl\sh-1.09\sh.py", line 34, in <module> ImportError: sh 1.09 is currently only supported on linux and osx. please install pbs 0.110 (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pbs) for windows support.
      - Python Package Index "pbs" - “Python subprocess wrapper. PBS has now become sh. PBS will no longer be supported”.
      - Python Package Index "sh" - “Python subprocess interface”.

Project Distribution with "Python Distribution Utilities" ("Distutils"), "setup.py", "Easy Install"...

The cross-platform GitHub "Conda", not limited to Python project distribution - “An OS-agnostic, system-level binary package manager”.
- Conda "Documentation".
  - Conda "Documentation / Custom channels" - “Channels are the path that conda takes to look for packages, and the easiest way to use and manage custom channels is to use a private or public repository on Anaconda.org, formerly known as Binstar.org”.
  - Anaconda Cloud.
- The most easy way to start with Conda, is to install the Python distribution “Miniconda”.
Python Documentation "Distributing Python Modules".
- Python Documentation "Distributing Python Modules. 2. Writing the Setup Script".
- SourceForge "Docutils: Documentation Utilities. Written in Python, for General- and Special-Purpose Use", SourceForge "Docutils".
  - SourceForge "reStructuredText. Markup Syntax and Parser Component of Docutils".
- StackOverflow "setup.py and adding file to /bin/" - “setup(name='myproject',author=,author_email=,scripts=['bin/myscript.py'])”.
- Das deutsche Python-Forum "Feedback erwünscht zu 'meinem ersten GitHub Projekt' :-)".
Python Guide "Installing Python on Windows".
- Installers for installing EZ-Setup and Pip:
  - “ez_setup.py” → BitBucket "pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap".
  - “get-pip.py” → GitHub "pypa/pip/tree/develop/contrib", bootstrap.pypa.io.
Mark Pilgrim "Dive into Python 3 - Chapter 16 Packaging Python Libraries".
Launchpad.net "~facundo/encuentro/trunk".
GitHub.io, Matthew Brett "Installing python scripts".
GitHub "matthew-brett/myscripter" - “A trivial repo for playing with python script installation on windows”.
PythonHosted "Setuptools documentation".
- PythonHosted "Setuptools / Easy Install".
As of 2016-04, Python experts agree that the “Wheel format” is now ideal for distribution of Python software.

( Virtual ) Development Environments and Development Environment Installers

Conda

Conda, GitHub "conda".

Nix

Nix. The Purely Functional Package Manager.
GitHub "Nix/Nixpkgs/NixOS".
- GitHub "NixOS/nix".
EN.Wikipedia "NixOS", DE.Wikipedia "NixOS".
The advantage and USP of Nix ( versus some Python virtual environments ) is, that packages are just downloaded once.

Pipenv

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python "Pipenv & Virtual Environments".

Poetry

Poetry - Python dependency management and packaging made easy.
User feedback in 2021-01: “Above PIP level”, “Better than Conda / Mamba”.
Was topic of an “EuroPython 2022” talk .

Pyenv

GitHub "pyenv" - “Simple Python Version Management: pyenv”.
amaral "pyenv Tutorial".
Basti's Scratchpad on the Internet "PyEnv is the new Conda".
Medium "Python Development on macOS with pyenv".
Dreamhost "Pyenv: simple Python version management".

venv

Ubuntusers Wiki "virtualenv" - “Seit Python 3.3 ist ein Modul zum Erzeugen einer virtuellen Pythonumgebung auch direkt Python enthalten, das Modul heißt venv”.

Virtualenv

Virtualenv, GitHub "pypa/virtualenv".
PythonForBeginners "How to use Python virtualenv".
PyPA - Python Packaging User Guide "Installing packages using pip and virtualenv".

Virtualenv on Windows, Error message

File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv.py", line 1576, in resolve_interpreter
    python_versions = get_installed_pythons()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv.py", line 93, in get_installed_pythons
    path = winreg.QueryValue(python_core, "%s\\InstallPath" % ver)
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

The expected Windows registry structure is, according to “virtualenv.py”, like this: “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / Software / Python / PythonCore / 2.7 / ...”.
On the special machine, a formerly installed Python 3.3 was not properly deinstalled, i.e. there was a Windows registry structure “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / Software / Python / PythonCore / 3.3 / ...” but not all expected subdirectories of “3.3” were implemented, so that the parsing of the Windows registry failed.
Solution: Use the Windows tool “RegEdit” to delete the whole key of “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / Software / Python / PythonCore / 3.3”.

Virtualenvwrapper

BitBucket "virtualenvwrapper".
ReadTheDocs "virtualenvwrapper" - “A set of extensions to Ian Bicking’s virtualenv tool”.
BogoToBogo "virtualenv & virtualenvwrapper".

Resources

Experts told me, that Python virtual environments are an “alternative” to use Vagrant or Docker as development platform .
- See Virtual PCs, Virtual Servers, Virtualization, Virtual Computers, Computer Hardware Simulation.
- See Software Development with Vagrant & Chef on VirtualBox.

Packaging / Testing / Release

Python Package Index "devpi"-
- devpi - “PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool”.
  - www.devpi.net.
    - hpk/devpi12/: devpi-server-1.2.3 metadata and description.
    - root/pypi: simple list (including inherited indices).
- tox automation project - “A generic virtualenv management and test command line tool you can use for:
  - Checking your package installs correctly with different Python versions and interpreters
  - Running your tests in each of the environments, configuring your test tool of choice
  - Acting as a frontend to Continuous Integration servers, greatly reducing boilerplate and merging CI and shell-based testing.

Generation of executable Applications

The OpenSource Sourceforge "cx_Freeze", Sourceforge "cx_Freeze" - “A set of scripts and modules for freezing Python scripts into executables”.
The OpenSource Nuitka - “Python compiler”.
The OpenSource py2exe, Sourceforge "py2exe", Sourceforge "py2exe".
The OpenSource py2app - Create standalone Mac OS X applications with Python.
The OpenSource Google Code "shedskin. An experimental (restricted) Python-to-C++ compiler".

Operating System Desktop Automation & Application Automation

The OpenSource Google Code "swapy. Simple Windows Automation on Python" - “Swapy-ob is a tool for GUI Automation for Windows. Finally you will get native python code for pywinauto module”.
- GitHub.io "Windows GUI Automation with Python", GitHub "pywinauto" - “Windows GUI Automation with Python (64-bit Py3 compatible)”.

Obfuscation Tools

The commercial tool Chris Niswander, BitBoost Systems "Python Obfuscator and Code Shrinker".
- The free online demo Chris Niswander "Python obfuscator online (as a web form)" - “It is based on a limited version of the larger-scale BitBoost Python obfuscator, which obfuscates much more complicated programs or packages”.
The OpenSource Github "astrand / pyobfuscate".

Resources

Stack Overflow.
- Stack Overflow "Python Code Obfuscation".
- Stack Overflow "How do I protect python code?".
EN.Wikipedia "Obfuscation (software)" - “It also limits the use of the Reflection application programming interface on the obfuscated code”.
DE.Wikipedia "Obfuscator".

Tools

Python Module Installers

Tools

The OpenSource Python Package Index "setuptools 0.6c11. Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages -- easily!", Bitbucket "setuptools" for Python 2.7.
- After installation of the Setuptools for Windows, go to the Python script directory ( e.g. “C:\Python27\scripts” and execute the module “module” by loading COMMAND.COM and executing “easy_install.exe -U module”.
The OpenSource Python.org "Easy Install".
The OpenSource pip - A tool for installing and managing Python packages, Github "pypa/pip", Python.Org, PyPI - the Python Package Index "pip".
- You may install Pip by virtualenv - “A tool to create isolated Python environments”.
  - From Windows COMMAND.COM commandline:
    - “virtualenv venv –distribute”.
    - “pip install xxxx”, where “xxxx” are Python packages.

Resources

Stack Overflow "python easy_install fails with SSL certificate error for all packages".
Stack Overflow "pip issue installing almost any library" - “The easiest workaround is to downgrade pip to one that doesn't use SSL: easy_install pip==1.2.1. This loses you the security benefit of using SSL. The real solution is to use a Python distribution linked to a more recent SSL library”.
Warning: Once, on Windows, the default DNS server was set to an inproper value ( i.e. not to the IP of the “default gateway” = the local DSL router ). Though it looked as if most network functions worked, by this, “easy_install” failed to install anything, with the error message ( taking the fictive package “test” as example, it does not matter if the package really exists ):

Searching for test
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/test/
easy_install : Download error on https://pypi.python.org/simple/test/: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed -- Some 
packages may not be found!
Couldn't find index page for 'test' (maybe misspelled?)

Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/
Download error on https://pypi.python.org/simple/: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed -- Some packages may not be found!

No local packages or download links found for test

error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('test')

Stack Overflow "Windows 8.1, Python(x,y) 2.7.6.0: 'python easy_install' fails with SSL certificate error", Google Groups "python(x,y)", thread "Python pypi download broken on Win8.1, how to fix ? ( typical error message: _ssl.c:507: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed )" by Rolf Hemmerling.

Python Launchers

The free Python launcher vinay.sajip "pylauncher" / "PEP 397".
- Python Insider DE - Neuigkeiten und Informationen zur Python Kern-Entwicklung "Ein Python-Starter für Windows".

Interfacing

Compiler Tools

Microsoft Download Center "Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7".

Tools & Frameworks

The OpenSource Cython - C-Extensions for Python - “A language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python itself. It is based on the well-known Pyrex, but supports more cutting edge functionality and optimizations”.
- EN.Wikipedia "Cython", DE.Wikipedia "Cython".
The OpenSource Pyrex - “Lets you write code that mixes Python and C data types any way you want, and compiles it into a C extension for Python”.
- Python Wiki "PyrexOnWindows" - “Step-by-step guide to install Pyrex on Windows and compile your first extension”, using the MinGW GNU C/C++ compiler.
- EN.Wikipedia "Pyrex (programming language)".
The Python Standard Library "15.17. ctypes — A foreign function library for Python".
The OpenSource SWIG.
- SWIG "31 SWIG and Python" - “An interface compiler that connects programs written in C and C++ with scripting languages such as Perl, Python, Ruby, and Tcl. It works by taking the declarations found in C/C++ header files and using them to generate the wrapper code that scripting languages need to access the underlying C/C++ code”.
- EN.Wikipedia "SWIG", DE.Wikipedia "SWIG".

Python Code Obfuscation

Python's On-board Tools

Python Frameworks, Toolkits & Applications

Web Servers & Web Frameworks

See Python 10/10 - Web Application Frameworks.

Modules

See Python 9/10 - Modules & Frameworks.

Big Python Applications

Airflow

The OpenSource Airbnb "Airflow" - “Airflow is written in pythonesque Python from the ground up”, “The web server is packaged with Airflow and is built on top of the Flask Python web framework”.
- Airbnb Open Source Projects.
  - Airbnb Open Source Projects "Airflow" - “Use Airflow to author workflows as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks”.
    - GitHub "airbnb/airflow".

NVDA Screen Reader

NVDA Screen Reader → See Accessibility.

Odoo

The just-commercial, but “OpenSource” business software Odoo. You get the sourcecode just as paying customer.

OpenStack

OpenStack - “Open-source software cloud computing platform. It is primarily deployed as an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution”.
- The OpenSource Open Stack, written in Python.
- OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
- Ubuntu "OpenStack with Ubuntu".
- Twitter "OpenStack".
- EN.Wikipedia "OpenStack", DE.Wikipedia "OpenStack" - “Projects that control pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering its users to provision resources through a web interface”.
- May be used to design “Meter Data Management Systems” systems in the Cloud, for the smart metering industry .
- IBM uses “OpenStack” for IT infrastructure management, e.g. with the product “IBM The Cloud Manager with Openstack” ( CMwO ).
  - IBM Knowledge Center "IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack welcome page" - “IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack V4.1.0 documentation”.
  - There are 3 interfaces to OpenStack:
    1. Chef based installer.
    2. The OpenStack dashboard “Horizon” for system administrators.
    3. “IBM Smart Cloud Entry Web Interface” for end users ( as simple to use as the interfaces by AWS and Azure ).

Robot Framework

See Testing.

Scapy

“Scapy” - “A powerful interactive packet manipulation program” ⇒ See Network Tools 1/2.

Big Applications built with Python Interface

Abaqus Unified FEA

Dassault Systèmes "Abaqus Unified FEA".
Autodesk Maya, Developer Center -“The fully integrated Maya Embedded Language (MEL) and Python scripting languages give you high-level access to every aspect of the software so you can create custom windows, reconfigure the user interface, and issue commands from an HTML page”.

Blender

Blender.
Blender 2.49b is the latest edition using Python 2.x.
- Blender - Download of "Blender2.49b".
Blender 2.5 is using Python 3.x.
EN.Wikipedia "Blender (software)", DE.Wikipedia "Blender (Software)".

CoDeSys Automation Alliance

3S-Smart Software Solutions GmbH - CoDeSys Automation Alliance - “Skriptsprache Python in CODESYS V3. Ab CODESYS V3.4 SP3 können Sie Abläufe innerhalb von CODESYS automatisieren. Dazu wurde ein Runtime sowie eine Systembibliothek für Python integriert. In diesem Forum finden Sie allgemeine Hinweise und Beispiele, auf die Sie bei der Erstellung von Python-Skripts zugreifen können”.

Odoo

Odoo - Open Source ERP and CRM , GitHub "Odoo. Open Source Business Apps".
EN.Wikipedia "Odoo" - “Odoo uses Python scripting and Postgres database”.

OriginPro

OriginLab "Origin", "OriginPro" - “Data Analysis and Graphing Software”.
- OriginLab "LabTalk Programming / Expand LabTalk Programming / LabTalk Scripting Guide / Expand LabTalk Scripting Guide "2.16 Working with Python".
EN.Wikipedia "Origin (software)", DE.Wikipedia "Origin (Software)".

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ for Java, Python,.. - “Messaging that works”.

Sublime Text

The Editor

The ShareWare editor ”Sublime Text 2” for Windows, Linux.
Sublime Text 2 - “Sublime Text 2 may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation”.
- Sublime Text "Plugin Basics".
The editor offers the “Code Completion” feature with choice suggestions .
The current ReadTheDocs "Sublime Text Unofficial Documentation".
The legacy deprecated Sublime Text "Sublime Text Help".
- Sublime Text "Sublime Text Help / Extending Sublime Text / Plugins".

Plugins

Sublime Text offers to write plugins in Python .
Package Control - “Install Now The Sublime Text package manager that makes it exceedingly simple to find, install and keep packages up-to-date”.
GitHub.io "Python Anywhere Editor. Edit your files from www.PythonAnywhere.com".
- PythonAnywhere Forums "Sublime Text 2 plugin for Python Anywhere".
GitHub "JulianEberius/SublimeRope" - “ST2 only: Adds Python completions and some IDE-like functions to Sublime Text 2, through the use of the Rope library”.
- Sublime Text Forum "Python Completion and GotoDefinition plugin using Rope".

Plugin Development

Resources

dbader.org "Setting up Sublime Text for Python development".
David Echols "Sublime Text 2 Python Development Environment in Windows".
nipunbatra "Plugins for Python development in Sublime Text".
- GitHub "wistful/SublimeAutoPEP8" - “Automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide using autopep8 and pep8 modules”.
- GitHub.io "SublimeCodeIntel", GitHub "SublimeCodeIntel" - “Full-featured code intelligence and smart autocomplete engine”.
- GitHub "wuub/SublimeREPL" - “SublimeREPL - run an interpreter inside ST2 (Clojure, CoffeeScript, F#, Groovy, Haskell, Lua, MozRepl, NodeJS, Python, R, Ruby, Scala, shell or configure one yourself)”.
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError. My random development experiments "Python development with Sublime Text 2 tips and tricks".
Sitepoint "10 Essential Sublime Text Plugins for Full-Stack Developers".
EN.Wikipedia "Sublime Text", DE.Wikipedia "Sublime Text".

Virtual Box

Virtual Box.

winIDEA

iSYSTEM AG für Informatiksysteme.
- Blog iSYSTEM AG für Informatiksysteme "iSystem News and Technical Blog".
- “Access winIDEA from a Python application”: iSYSTEM AG "SDKs - winIDEA" - There is an SDK, “isystem.connect SDK”, both
  - For the current commercial edition of the Windows IDE “winIDEA”.
  - And for the current free edition of the Windows “IDE winIDEA”, e.g. “winIDEA Open 9.12.209” and “winIDEA Open 9.12.238”.
The only option to download and install the free SDK for Python is at “Help / SDK / Download Python SDK” in the “winIDEA Open” application , by which the download of e.g. iSYSTEM.Python.SDK.9_12_209.zip, iSYSTEM.Python.SDK.9_12_238.zip is started.
iSystem AG "isystem.connect: User's Guide" for the Python SDK.
- iSystem AG "isystem.connect: User's Guide": "Python Examples by Group".
According to iSYSTEM staff members in 2015-07, the Python SDK is the most requested SDK by the customers.
- Due to this success, it is expected that this SDK will be available with further commercial and also free editions .
- I was told by experts, that the number of shipped examples with the SDKs differs. As the Python SDK is so successful, it is shipped with the highest amount of example scripts.
Advice: Develop your scripts with Python 3.
- Python 2.7 is still supported,
- but the shipped examples were now converted to Python 3, lately.
The IDE “winIDEA” is shipped with “daqIDEA” ( “Data AcQuisition IDEA” ), a tool for graphic representation of large data sets acquired by winIDEA. See ”./daqIDEA/daqIDEA.docx”.

Interfacing the Real World

Douglas P Lau "NXT_Python".
Google Code "nxt-python. A pure-python driver/interface/wrapper for the Lego Mindstorms NXT robot", a successor of NXT_Python.
Telit Wireless Solutions "How it works" - “The Telit Easy Script extension is targeted toward applications usually handled by a microcontroller that manages I/O pins through the AT command interface. In order to eliminate this external controller and further simplify the programming of the sequence of operations, Telit modules supporting Easy Script offer: Python script interpreter engine”.

Testing

Static Testing - Source Code Checker

See Good Coding ! - Software Coding, Coding Rules, Static Code Analysis.

Dynamic Testing Tools

See Testing.
See Unit Test / Module Test.
YAML - YAML Ain't Markup Language → See Testing.

How-To-Do-Testing, Testing Instructions, Testing Training

Grig Gheorghiu.
IBM developerWorks "Python testing frameworks : Make your life easy with a Python testing framework" #.
- “zope.testing”, “py.test”, “nose”.
- “The testing revolution: The py.test framework transformed the world of Python testing by accepting plain Python functions as tests instead of insisting that tests be packaged inside of larger and heavier-weight test classes. Since the nose framework supports the same idiom, these patterns are likely to become more and more popular”.
Chris Withers, Simplistix - Making things simpler... "Presentations".
- “Python as a Testing Tool” ( PDF ).

Generation of executable Applications

The OpenSource Sourceforge "cx_Freeze", Sourceforge "cx_Freeze" - “A set of scripts and modules for freezing Python scripts into executables”.
The OpenSource py2exe, Sourceforge "py2exe", Sourceforge "py2exe".
The OpenSource py2app - Create standalone Mac OS X applications with Python.

Python Jobs, Trainings, Certifications, Projects

Commercial Certification for Python Skills

Brainbench, Inc. → See Brainbench Certification.

Zope, Django

In the early 2000ths, the only job offers in Germany for Python developers were about building websites & web applications using using Zope. Many/most processed projects were based on Plone, the most successfull application built with Zope. As the years passed by, a kind of “Zope” ecosystem was created, generating successful “Plone service providers”.
Since late 2000th / early 2010th, it might be that a similar ecosystem for “Django” is under construction.
Django Jobs - Hire Python Developer.
- Facebook "Djangojobs.Net".

Open List for ( unpaid,..) Projects

Python-Forum "pythonwiki - Projektbörse".

The Meaning of Python for Testing of ( Automotive ) Industry Applications

Job offer analysis ?
Case Studies ?
Popular Frameworks ?

Companies which are Python Specialists

Python Hosting

Heroku

Heroku - “Cloud Application Platform”. “Write apps in your language – we support Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Java, Python and Scala” → See Software As A Service ( SAAS ).