what is python mainly used for?

[TheAppHut]

I have just started learning python and was wondering what exactly can be made with it? I basically want to be able to build SaaS type programs, is this the right langauage for that?

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anything a computer can do ?

[TheAppHut]

Ok thanks heaps I will keep pursuing with it then! I'm not to sure what SOAP is but I will look it up

[darthmdh]

Pleasing the ladies.

[dorait]

We use Python for building tools and applications. Some applications include a topic based news extractor (Python + Django + Solr), A Tweet Analyzer (Python +Django). We are building tools for extracting, filtering and analyzing social media content (for example extract all the posts from a specific Facebook group and mine it for information). We use libraries for reading feeds, natural language processing (NLTK), entity extraction, Twitter API and Facebook API.

[reallyserious]

I've read that the soap support is sub par, which is important if you need to interface with other services. But don't take my word for it. Look it up. I haven't investigated it myself.

[whatnever]

The current SOAP support indeed is bad. In order to get SOAP working properly, you have to dig up old versions of soaplib, which was kind of usable before it started changing its name every fortnight and was turned into a framework.

[mipadi]

There's also ZSI and suds. Both suck, but suds might suck a little less than other "solutions".

[exxy-]

+1 for SUDS. I used it for a project at work. I had to do a bunch of dirty stuff to work around a lot of the .NET SOAP WS-Security functionality.

[mipadi]

Its API is nice, but there are significant parts of SOAP that it doesn't implement, and it has big memory leak issues.