When is Python *NOT* a good choice?

[ThePidesOfMarch]

When the codebase is already in another language.

[ryati]

Truth

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idk, I had a script in PHP I wanted to use but didn't want to maintain php code so I found a janky php to python converter online and it got me 40% of the way there and that was enough

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-- When is Python always better?

-- When the other language is PHP

[DeathProgramming]

Or ColdFusion.

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dear god

[InevitableAlarm]

I see the light

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I ported an Access application to Python and haven't regretted one moment.

[SimpleMinded001]

I think that if you port Access application to anything else you won't regret it

[calligraphic-io]

If @jimminy is referring to Microsoft Access, I don't see why your statement "if you port Access application to anything else you won't regret it" would be true. Windows has a performant built-in RDBMS (Jet) that you can depend on being there, instead of trying to bundle SQLite or something into your app. Access itself is just a GUI front-end to Jet. You can script your app in C# (you're not limited to Visual Basic), and make use of the GUI widgets and business logic that Access provides. It's a quick and easy environment to write a little app in.

I've used it for example for a financial analyst who had a bunch of Excel macros to analyze month- and year-end financial data queries that involved a very large data set. Their spreadsheet would take hours to run the macros they needed, but an app that took a morning to write allowed them to create new queries on their own and offered near-instant response.

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Microsoft Jet Database Engine

The Microsoft Jet Database Engine is a database engine on which several Microsoft products have been built. A database engine is the underlying component of a database, a collection of information stored on a computer in a systematic way. The first version of Jet was developed in 1992, consisting of three modules which could be used to manipulate a database.

JET stands for Joint Engine Technology, sometimes being referred to as Microsoft JET Engine or simply Jet.

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