LISTS OF COMPANIES USING PYTHON

APPLICATION OF PYTHON IN THE REAL WORLD

Every year there is a great demand for Python Users by numerous companies around the world. Below is a list of few companies among  thousands of companies using Python around the world:

Yahoo Maps

Yahoo acquired Four11, whose address and mapping lookup services were implemented in Python. Yahoo Maps still uses Python today, as can be seen by examining its URLs.

Yahoo Group

A comprehensive public archive of Internet mailing lists that was originally implemented in pure Python. At one point Scott Hassan, one of the founders of Findmail/eGroups (the company that was later acquired by Yahoo), reported that they had 180,000 lines of Python underlying everything from their 100% dynamic website to all email delivery, pumping out 200 messages/second on a single 400 MHz Pentium.

Google

Many components of the Google spider and search engine are written in Python (mentioned on Slashdot).

Zope Corporation

Zope Corporation has developed a powerful Web application server using Python that's available as free software.

Ultraseek

Ultraseek Server, a commercial search engine product, is implemented as an elaborate multi-threaded Python program with primitive indexing and search operations performed by a built-in module. Most of the program is written in Python, and both the built-in spider and HTTP server can be customized with additional Python code. The program contains over 11,000 lines of Python code, and the user interface is implemented with over 17,000 lines of Python-scripted HTML templates.

Linux Weekly News

Linux Weekly News is published using a Web application written in Python using the Quixote framework.

ElasticHosts Cloud Servers

Elastic Hosts web control panel is a Web Application Python using the Django framework. Their cloud management middleware is a standalone python application.

Mojam.com

Mojam's Musi-Cal web site provides easy access to the most up-to-date worldwide live music information: concerts, festivals, gigs and other musical events. Much of the back-end (database and email interfaces) is written in Python.

Hunch

hunch is a new type of AI filter, and a decision engine, as well as a social networking site. hunch uses Python primarily for their user interface, but their Jobs criteria only ask's for Python experience, so they probably use it to glue things together as well.

Shopzilla

Shopzilla is a family of comparison shopping sites. Shopzilla uses Python for configuration management and deployment, automated testing and internal tool development.

Movieplayer.it

Movieplayer.it is an italian web portal providing a huge database on cinema with movies,TV series, characters, DVD and Blu-Ray sheets, as well as continuos updates on everything related to current events and news of cinema and television world.

Multiplayer.it

Multiplayer.it is the italian leading web source focused on PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PS Vita, Wii PC, 3DS, PSP, DS video games, with daily news, previews, interviews, reviews, specials, charts and video games and hardware selling data.

Web Therapy

Ianchat.com is a US based provider of Web Therapy, Telephone Therapy, and In person Therapy which uses python for its website and incorporates a unified communication system which provides simple counselling and consulting solutions for many professionals worldwide.

Games

Battlefield 2

Battlefield 2 uses python to implement core elements of the gameplay such as score keeping and team balancing. Check out the BF2 Tech Wiki for sample BF2 Python scripts and information about API.

Crystal Space

The Crystal Space 3D Engine uses python for scripting through a plug-in mechanism. Python scripts can be dynamically invoked from within the engine depending on game specific actions. Python can also be used to program the main game core. It has full access to the C++ Crystal Space API.

Star Trek Bridge Commander

The game "StarTrek’ Bridge Commander" by Totally Games uses Python both as the mission scripting language and also for a ton of other features.

The Temple of Elemental Evil and Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines

"Greyhawk: The Temple of Elemental Evil" and "Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines" use Python extensively for pretty much everything except the rendering engines - game logic, interface, etc. Both games have strong modding communities.

There is ashort interview with Steve Moret from Troika Games about using Python in ToEE (and looking forwards to Bloodlines).

Civilization 4

The new addition to the legendary strategy game series has all its inner logic, including AI, implemented in Python. The interface is exposed, so the modding community can easily take advantage of it.

QuArK (Quake Army Knife)

QuArK is a level-editor for Quake, Quake II and Half-Life written mostly in Python. One can also write plug-ins for it in Python.

Check out these companies to view their requirement for employment. These can serve as a motivation for you to advance in your knowledge of python.