part igetting started with python yahooyoutube zope digital creations (application these are just few of the many organizations that use python extensively you can find more complete list of organizations at org/about/successthe number of success stories has become so large that even this list probably isn' complete and the people supporting it have had to create categories to better organize it finding useful python applications you might have an application written in python sitting on your machine right now and not even know it python is used in vast array of applications on the market today the applications range from utilities that run at the console to full-fledged cad/cam suites some applications run on mobile deviceswhile others run on the large services employed by enterprises in shortthere is no limit to what you can do with pythonbut it really does help to see what others have done you can find number of places online that list applications written in pythonbut the best place to look is python org/moin/applications as python programmeryou'll also want to know that python development tools are available to make your life easier development tool provides some level of automation in writing the procedures needed to tell the computer what to do having more development tools means that you have to perform less work in order to obtain working application developers love to share their lists of favorite toolsbut you can find great list of tools broken into categories at of coursethis describes number of tools as wellsuch as numpy and scipy (two scientific librariesthe remainder of the book lists few other toolsmake sure that you copy down your favorite tools for later comparing python to other languages comparing one language to another is somewhat dangerous because the selection of language is just as much matter of taste and personal preference as it is any sort of quantifiable scientific fact so before ' attacked by the rabid protectors of the languages that followit' important to realize