Use Python for section shows bad/out of date examples

[alex]

It's unreasonable for the "Web programming" examples to be "CGI, Zope, Django, TurboGears, XML"

[akuchling]

Assuming you meant http://www.python.org/about/apps/ , I rewrote that page but it must have gotten overwritten by the last conversion before launch.

My rewritten text is below:

Application Domains

Python is used in many application domains. Here's a sampling.

• The Python Package Index <http://pypi.python.org/pypi>_ lists thousands of third party modules for Python.

Web and Internet Development

Python offers many choices for web development <http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebProgramming>_:

• Frameworks such as Django <http://www.djangoproject.com/>_, Pyramid <http://www.pylonsproject.org/>_, and TurboGears <http://www.turbogears.org/>.
• Micro-frameworks such as Flask <http://flask.pocoo.org/> and Bottle <http://bottlepy.org/>.
• Advanced content management systems such as Plone <http://www.plone.org/>_ and django CMS <https://www.django-cms.org/>__.

Python's standard library supports many Internet protocols:

• HTML and XML <http://docs.python.org/library/markup>_
• JSON <http://docs.python.org/library/json.html>__
• E-mail processing <http://docs.python.org/library/email>_.
• Support for FTP <http://docs.python.org/library/ftplib.html>, IMAP <http://docs.python.org/2/library/imaplib.html>, and other Internet protocols <http://docs.python.org/library/internet>_.
• Easy-to-use socket interface <http://docs.python.org/howto/sockets.html>__.

And the Package Index has yet more libraries:

• Requests <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests/>__, a powerful HTTP client library.
• BeautifulSoup <http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/>__, an HTML parser that can handle all sorts of oddball HTML.
• Feedparser <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/feedparser>__ for parsing RSS/Atom feeds.
• Paramiko <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/paramiko/>__, implementing the SSH2 protocol.
• Twisted Python <http://twistedmatrix.com/>__, a framework for asynchronous network programming.

Scientific and Numeric

Python is widely used in scientific and numeric <http://wiki.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific>__ computing:

• SciPy <http://scipy.org/>_ is a collection of packages for mathematics, science, and engineering.
• Pandas <http://pandas.pydata.org/>__ is a data analysis and modeling library.
• IPython <http://ipython.org/>__ is a powerful interactive shell that features easy editing and recording of a work session, and supports visualizations and parallel computing.
• The Software Carpentry Course <http://software-carpentry.org>__ teaches basic skills for scientific computing, running bootcamps and providing open-access teaching materials.

Education

Python is a superb language for teaching programming, both at the introductory level and in more advanced courses.

• Books such as How to Think Like a Computer Scientist <http://www.openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/>, Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science <http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/>, and Practical Programming <http://pragprog.com/book/gwpy2/practical-programming>__.
• The Education Special Interest Group </community/sigs/current/edu-sig>__ is a good place to discuss teaching issues.

Desktop GUIs

The Tk <http://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter>_ GUI library is included with most binary distributions of Python.

Some toolkits that are usable on several platforms are available separately:

• wxWidgets <http://www.wxpython.org/>_
• Kivy <http://kivy.org/>__, for writing multitouch applications.
• Qt via pyqt <http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro> or pyside <http://www.pyside.org/>

Platform-specific toolkits are also available:

• GTK+ <http://www.pygtk.org/>_
• Microsoft Foundation Classes through the win32 extensions <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/>_

Software Development

Python is often used as a support language for software developers, for build control and management, testing, and in many other ways.

• SCons <http://www.scons.org/>__ for build control.
• Buildbot <http://buildbot.sourceforge.net/> and Apache Gump <http://gump.apache.org/> for automated continuous compilation and testing.
• Roundup <http://roundup.sourceforge.net/>_ or Trac <http://www.edgewall.com/trac/>__ for bug tracking and project management.
• List of Integrated Development Environments_.

.. _List of Integrated Development Environments: http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments

[alex]

No, I was referring to the section on the hoem page.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:35 AM, akuchling notifications@github.com wrote:

Assuming you meant http://www.python.org/about/apps/ , I rewrote that page but it must have gotten overwritten by the last conversion before launch.

My rewritten text is below: Application Domains

Python is used in many application domains. Here's a sampling.

• The Python Package Index http://pypi.python.org/pypi_ lists thousands of third party modules for Python.

Web and Internet Development

Python offers many choices for web development < http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebProgramming>_:

• Frameworks such as Django http://www.djangoproject.com/_, Pyramid <http://www.pylonsproject.org/ http://www.pylonsproject.org/>_, and TurboGears http://www.turbogears.org/.
• Micro-frameworks such as Flask http://flask.pocoo.org/__ and Bottle http://bottlepy.org/__.
• Advanced content management systems such as Plone < http://www.plone.org/>_ and django CMS https://www.django-cms.org/__.

Python's standard library supports many Internet protocols:

• HTML and XML http://docs.python.org/library/markup_
• JSON http://docs.python.org/library/json.html__
• E-mail processing http://docs.python.org/library/email_.
• Support for FTP http://docs.python.org/library/ftplib.html_, IMAP http://docs.python.org/2/library/imaplib.html <http://docs.python.org/2/library/imaplib.html>, and other Internet protocols http://docs.python.org/library/internet.
• Easy-to-use socket interface < http://docs.python.org/howto/sockets.html>__.

And the Package Index has yet more libraries:

• Requests https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests/__, a powerful HTTP client library.
• BeautifulSoup http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/__, an HTML parser that can handle all sorts of oddball HTML.
• Feedparser https://pypi.python.org/pypi/feedparser__ for parsing RSS/Atom feeds.
• Paramiko https://pypi.python.org/pypi/paramiko/__, implementing the SSH2 protocol.
• Twisted Python http://twistedmatrix.com/__, a framework for asynchronous network programming.

Scientific and Numeric

Python is widely used in scientific and numeric http://wiki.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific__ computing:

• SciPy http://scipy.org/_ is a collection of packages for mathematics, science, and engineering.
• Pandas http://pandas.pydata.org/__ is a data analysis and modeling library.
• IPython http://ipython.org/__ is a powerful interactive shell that features easy editing and recording of a work session, and supports visualizations and parallel computing.
• The Software Carpentry Course http://software-carpentry.org__ teaches basic skills for scientific computing, running bootcamps and providing open-access teaching materials.

Education

Python is a superb language for teaching programming, both at the introductory level and in more advanced courses.

• Books such as How to Think Like a Computer Scientist < http://www.openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/>, Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/ <http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/>, and Practical Programming < http://pragprog.com/book/gwpy2/practical-programming>__.
• The Education Special Interest Group </community/sigs/current/edu-sig>__ is a good place to discuss teaching issues.

Desktop GUIs

The Tk http://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter_ GUI library is included with most binary distributions of Python.

Some toolkits that are usable on several platforms are available separately:

• wxWidgets http://www.wxpython.org/_
• Kivy http://kivy.org/__, for writing multitouch applications.
• Qt via pyqt http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro_ or pyside http://www.pyside.org/_

Platform-specific toolkits are also available:

• GTK+ http://www.pygtk.org/_
• Microsoft Foundation Classes through the win32 extensions < http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/>_

Software Development

Python is often used as a support language for software developers, for build control and management, testing, and in many other ways.

• SCons http://www.scons.org/__ for build control.
• Buildbot http://buildbot.sourceforge.net/__ and Apache Gump < http://gump.apache.org/>__ for automated continuous compilation and testing.
• Roundup http://roundup.sourceforge.net/_ or Trac < http://www.edgewall.com/trac/>__ for bug tracking and project management.
• List of Integrated Development Environments_.

.. _List of Integrated Development Environments: http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments

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[xen]

I think list for http://www.python.org/about/apps/ is great, and can be copied to home page as short version.

[akuchling]

I've updated the list shown on the top page to use the same titles and links as /about/apps, but frankly I think we should just drop this box; the home page is already rather long, and it's unlikely we'll keep this content up to date.

(Note for future maintainers: to do this, I edited the Box titled "widget-use-python-for".)