Introduction to the Python programming language

3. What can be done?

• large number of standard libraries for nearly everything (web servers, FTP servers, OS-specific functions, compressing files, socket communication, mathematics...)
• if there isn't a library available, you can write it (in C or Java)
• you can use it to:
  • write CGI scripts (web apps) using the cgi module
  • process XML
  • write GUI interfaces (Tk, wxPython...);
    wxPython is a Python implementation of wxWindows
  • provide a scripting environment for your app;
    ...so users can extend your application
  • database communication (through different libraries) - MySQL, PostgreSQL...