Python's in use in a very wide variety of applications ... one of the more noteworthy that we got involved in recently was in robot programming .... here's our
Python Course delegate with his robot.
Python is an ideal language for tailoring C / C++ applications such as real time control systems as used within these robots. Behaviour programmed and decisions made in your Python code are returned to the underlying software which then translates that behaviour into controls.
(written 2014-09-18)
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