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Python to the rescue! |
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Today my boss came to me needing an application to ping our company web servers and send email to the admin if they don't respond. And he needed it fast - in a few hours. Python to the rescue! I told him no problem and whipped together a script from httplib and smtplib. Tonight it's in production! :-) |
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posted at 19:49:20
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Jython wins for now |
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I recently wrote (Python or Jython?) about whether to use Jython or Python for my next project. For pragmatic reasons I have decided on Jython. Mostly this is because I want to leverage the work I did on the last project:
- There are several pieces I might want to reuse including a styled editor and a nice toolkit for putting together editing panels.
- Java Web Start is working pretty well as a deployment strategy.
- I'm pretty good with Swing now and I would have to learn a new GUI toolkit to use Python.
- I really do like dom4j, I don't think any of the Python XML toolkits compare. ElementTree is the closest I know of, but its XPath support is limited.
- And Velocity, and Jetty :-)
Next time, who knows?
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