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Python can serve as a scripting language for web applications, e.g., via
for the Apache web server.<ref name=“AutoNT-35” /> With Web Server Gateway Interface, a standard API has evolved to facilitate these applications. Web frameworks like Django (web framework) | Django, Pylons (web framework) | Pylons, Pyramid (web framework) | Pyramid, TurboGears, web2py, Tornado (web server) | Tornado, Flask (web framework) | Flask, Bottle (web framework) | Bottle and Zope support developers in the design and maintenance of complex applications. Pyjs and IronPython can be used to develop the client-side of Ajax-based applications. SQLAlchemy can be used as a Data mapper pattern | data mapper to a relational database. Twisted (software) | Twisted is a framework to program communications between computers, and is used (for example) by Dropbox (service) | Dropbox.
Libraries such as NumPy, SciPy and Matplotlib allow the effective use of Python in scientific computing,<ref name=“cise”>
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</ref> OpenCV has Python bindings with a rich set of features for computer vision and Digital image processing | image processing.<ref>
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Python is commonly used in artificial intelligence projects and machine learning projects with the help of libraries like TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch | Pytorch and Scikit-learn.<ref name=whitepaper2015>
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Python can also be used to create games, with libraries such as Pygame, which can make 2D games.
Python has been successfully embedded in many software products as a scripting language, including in finite element method software such as Abaqus, 3D parametric modeler like FreeCAD, 3D animation packages such as 3ds Max, Blender (software) | Blender, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, Houdini (software) | Houdini, Maya (software) | Maya, modo (software) | modo, MotionBuilder, Autodesk Softimage | Softimage, the visual effects compositor Nuke (software) | Nuke, 2D imaging programs like GIMP,<ref>
</ref> Inkscape, Scribus and Paint Shop Pro,<ref name=“AutoNT-38” /> and musical notation programs like scorewriter and Capella (notation program) | capella. GNU Debugger uses Python as a Prettyprint | pretty printer to show complex structures such as C++ containers. Esri promotes Python as the best choice for writing scripts in ArcGIS.<ref name=“AutoNT-39” /> It has also been used in several video games,<ref name=“AutoNT-40” /><ref name=“AutoNT-41” /> and has been adopted as first of the three available programming languages in Google App Engine, the other two being Java (software platform) | Java and Go (programming language) | Go.<ref name=“AutoNT-42” />
Many operating systems include Python as a standard component. It ships with most Linux distributions,<ref>
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Python is used extensively in the information security industry, including in exploit development.<ref name=“AutoNT-49” /><ref name=“AutoNT-50” />
Most of the Sugar (software) | Sugar software for the One Laptop per Child XO, now developed at Sugar Labs, is written in Python.<ref name=“AutoNT-51” /> The Raspberry Pi single-board computer project has adopted Python as its main user-programming language.
LibreOffice includes Python, and intends to replace Java with Python. Its Python Scripting Provider is a core feature<ref>
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