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:I agree: I think both should be changed. --[[User:Marko Knoebl|Marko Knoebl]] ([[User talk:Marko Knoebl|talk]]) 10:03, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

== Bullet point list of Uses/Applications ==

I think it would be easier to read the section entitled "Use" if it included a bullet pointed list. Here's a start:

* Scientific computing (NumPy, SciPy, Sage, etc.)

* web dev (Django, etc.)

* admin scripting (Salt, bcfg2, OpenStack)

* game scripting (Civilization 4, etc.)

* 3D applications (Blender, etc.)

* Linux applications (nearly everything in Ubuntu)

* Largescale web development (e.g. Instagram which is Django, Disqus, Quora)

* Game creation (Eve Online, etc.)

* Neuroscience.[http://www.frontiersin.org/neuroinformatics/researchtopics/Python_in_neuroscience/8]

* Bioinformatics

* Crossplatform GUI applications

* Robotics ([[Python Robotics|Pyro]], etc.)

* Raspberry Pi

FYI, the starting point for this list is in this thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1k74jb/ruby_vs_python/ . There's more good information there on the topic. Perhaps the Use section could even be split in two: "Use" and "Applications," where the Use section discusses the language's popularity generally, while the Applications section has a bullet list like this. Others are welcome to revise/incorporate this comment as they like. Thanks. [[Special:Contributions/107.3.156.34|107.3.156.34]] ([[User talk:107.3.156.34|talk]]) 17:09, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

:I agree. I'm not sure what order those topics should be in, though. [[User:Peterl|peterl]] ([[User talk:Peterl|talk]]) 20:56, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

:I disagree. Wikipedia is not reddit - it is an encyclopedia. The [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Embedded lists|MOS]] says articles should be primary prose. [[User:Meshach|meshach]] ([[User talk:Meshach|talk]]) 21:22, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

::Perhaps articles should be primarily readable as prose, but there are plenty of examples in Wikipedia of bullet lists being used appropriately within that context. Indeed, this Python article already has ten such bullet lists :), and I would not be supportive of removing them. They're quite helpful for the reader. I'd suggest adding some "meat" to each bullet list that isn't otherwise self-descriptive. [[Special:Contributions/107.3.156.34|107.3.156.34]] ([[User talk:107.3.156.34|talk]]) 22:04, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

== Speed ==

According to an undocumented statement in Wik simple English, running speed for C is (up to?) 200 times faster than Python. Ef this is anywhere near correct, it should be documented and included in our article. [[Special:Contributions/211.225.33.104|211.225.33.104]] ([[User talk:211.225.33.104|talk]]) 06:57, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

:There are several different implementations of Python, and speed is relevant to the implementation rather than to the language. This is also true of C implementations, but the difference in speed is greater with Python than with modern optimising C compilers. Different benchmark programs will also give significantly different results.

:Such a statement belongs in our articles on, for example, [[CPython]] or [[PyPy]], with suitable sources, rather than in this article on the language.-<span style="font-family:cursive; color:grey;">[[User talk:gadfium|gadfium]]</span> 07:48, 16 June 2014 (UTC)