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>Python is glue code. You write a small piece of Python to tie together external libraries.

Glue code is only one of the things that Python can be and is used for. Python is used for small, medium and large [2] applications as well.

Do all of the following look like glue code?

Recent marketing brochure from the PSF (Python Software Foundation) - (it's a PDF):

http://brochure.getpython.info/media/releases/psf-python-bro...

Python success stories:

https://www.python.org/about/success/

Google's web front-end (many of their URLs even end in .py)), Dropbox clients (wxPython), YouTube [3], Disqus are some apps / sites written in Python.

[1] See the paragraphs about YouTube near the end of this post (by me, but much before this current thread):

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/03/youtube-dl-yourube-downloa...

[2], [3] The PyCon talk below is by one of the original engineers at YouTube.

https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/presentation/128/

The Wikipedia article below says YouTube is one of the largest web sites in the world. A lot of YouTube is written in Python.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube



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