Appropriate Uses for Python   

Appropriate Uses

• General program development
• Rapid prototype development
• Cross platform application development
• Cross platform GUI development
• Web-based server side applications
• Database programming
• Component integration (incl. COM, CORBA, SOAP, XML-RPC)
• High-speed numerical computation (NumPy)
• Artificial Intelligence applications
• System adminstration scripts
• General replacement for Perl (better maintainability and OO model)
• Java testing scripts

Inappropriate?

• Device drivers: Very high level languages seldom allow the addressing
                of specific memory locations.  C is a better choice.
• Critical real-time apps: The frequency and duration of garbage collection
                can be uncertain. There is, however, a gc library where
                you may explicitly invoke gc and set various parameters.