Here are links to just a few of the organizations that use Python.
You can also user-created video that provides a presentation of a selection of the various uses of Python.
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Web Development
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Elastic Hosts web control panel is a Web application Python using the Django framework. Their cloud management middleware is a standalone python application.
Shopzilla is a family of comparison shopping sites. Shopzilla uses Python for configuration management and deployment, automated testing and internal tool development.
Ianchat.com is a US based provider of Web Therapy, Telephone Therapy, and In person Therapy which uses python for its website and incorporates a unified communication system which provides simple counseling and consulting solutions for many professionals worldwide.
Games
The game "Star Trek Bridge Commander" by interview with Steve Moret from Troika Games about using Python in ToEE (and looking forwards to Bloodlines).
a paper from the 2002 Game Developer Conference that provides more information about Python and game development.
Graphics
RoboFog is a scriptable font editor for the Macintosh. It is basically good old Fontographer with an embedded Python interpreter. Developed by Petr van Blokland, Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland.
Starting with Version 8, Paint Shop Pro uses Python as its scripting language.
Financial
Bethpage Federal Credit Union is written in Python. The product is known as SAFE (Secure Access Financial Enterprise)[TM], a product suite developed by Journyx Timesheet and Resource Management Software
Journyx products (Timesheet and ProjectXecute) are all written in Python and so it has been since 1996. The products enable tracking time for billing, payroll, and project management as well as allocating peoples' future time to different tasks.
Science
BioNumerics to automate series of actions that are executed repeatedly, to create custom reports, to import and export non-standard formats, to perform custom calculations, etc.
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Theoretical Physics Division
Scientists in the Theoretical Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory are using Python to control large-scale physics codes on massively parallel supercomputers, high-end servers, and clusters. Python plays a central role in controlling these simulations, performing data analysis, and visualization. To support these efforts, Python has been ported to run over MPI. The Paul Dubois is a central figure in that effort.
Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
ESRI is a leader in the field of Geographic Information Systems (software that relates data to location). As of version 9.0 of ESRI's ArcView software suite, ESRI uses Python as a scripting language and distributes the Python runtime. ESRI has released the Python interface library to its products as an open source package called Objexx Engineering
Objexx Engineering develops sophisticated scientific and engineering applications using Python. Pure Python applications are developed using packages such as NumPy and PyTables for computational efficiency, PySide or PyQt for GUIs, and matplotlib or PyQwt for plotting. Hybrid applications are also built with a Python user-centric wrapper around a (legacy or new) C++ or Fortran computational core using binding generators such as Boost.Python and F2PY.
Electronic Design Automation
Productivity Design Tools (PDTi) is an Soft IP generators built upon PDTi's SpectaGen Framework make significant efficiency improvements for all Memory-Mapped Register generator.
Software Development
SGI is using Python for its Linux installer, for various SGI Linux products (such as for clustering, ISP, system console, failsafe, workstation and servers). This installer is derived from the Red Hat Anaconda installer.
A Python runtime is available for the EFI (fancy BIOS, sorta) environment being developed by Intel for SGI's IA64 Itanium and future IA32 systems. You can find mention of this at S60 (Symbian) and Maemo (Linux) platforms
Education
Zope at Penn State using the open-source Content Management System (CMS) IT Certification Exam preparation
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SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence.
Business Software
the Netcraft survey), uses Python extensively for intranet and extranet services. Python generates web pages based on database content, and takes care of the cryptography and digital certificate management involved in certification. "Python makes us extremely productive, and makes maintaining a large and rapidly evolving codebase relatively simple."
MetaDynamic is a seamless integration of Python on client and server sides within the Metaphase product data management system (an object-oriented distributed system), that provides a new RAD environment as a substitute to the traditional customization environment in C. Arakn<E9> uses Python internally on its other developments.
Escom is a Polish company that uses python language for developing network-management and hosting-management applications and collocation-management applications.
provides tourism technologies as a booking engine (individual booking on line) and a Channel Manager. Services are completely developed in Python and Twisted. Moreover, WuBook provides a large Web Services Framework (XmlRpc Protocol, xmlrpc python library) succesfully integrated by different programming languages.
Government
The site of the USA Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is powered by Python/Zope/Plone.