AWeber and bitly are using Python

By Vasudev Ram


Seen today via http://planet.python.org:

AWeber and bitly are using Python

AWeber is a well-known email marketing service.

bitly is a well-known URL shortening service.

Quotes about Python from the above post, by AWeber, bitly, also by Revolution Systems and Wingware:

[ AWeber:

AWeber is using Python to support and extend our Software as a Service solution for email marketing. Python is important to AWeber because of the great community around it and the extensive set of capabilities it has, provided by either the python standard library or 3rd party packages. The overall philosophy Python espouses with the Zen of Python also aligns very well with the philosophy we have at AWeber.

Supporting the Python Community and helping to further the efforts of the Community is in the best interest of AWeber and the Community overall. We also get to learn a great deal from the community in attendance. A win/win for sure.

bitly:

Bitly’s main github repo is 48.1% Python, our biggest language by far! The runner up, for the curious, is Javascript, and we even maintain just the teensiest bit of TCL code (1.2%, and yes, there’s a good story there). Python is important to us because the many available libraries allow us to develop features quickly and the ability to easily bind to C libraries gives us the performance we require to handle hundreds of millions of requests per day. Why does sponsoring/attending PyCon 2013 make sense for your organization?

We've sent speakers and attended over the last few years, and would like to continue to contribute to the python community. We publish lots of our code as open source (https://github.com/bitly / http://word.bitly.com/), and also find PyCon to be a great place to meet like-minded hackers working on interesting problems (p.s. [we're hiring!])

Wingware:

Wingware doesn't just make a Python IDE. We also use Python and Wing IDE for everything we do, including developing the IDE with itself, running our website, and supporting our business processes. Back in 1998, Python was our inspiration to start the company, and it continues to be what makes Wingware possible. We've always been very interested in being a part of the Python community.

Revolution Systems:

We use Python for everything we do. Being Python and Django consultants, Python isn't just important to our business it is our
business.

Sponsoring PyCon is both a way to help bolster the larger Python community and a great way to familiarize the Python elite with our companies services should they find a need for us. ]

- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises

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URL unshortener - unfwd4.me

By Vasudev Ram


Unfwd4.me is a URL unshortener, the opposite of a URL shortener like t.co, Twitter's own one, or tinyurl.com or bit.ly. If you enter a shortened URL on its web site, it unshortens it and shows you the original form of the URL, as it was before being shortened.

URL un-shorteners can be useful if you are programmatically reading and processing tweets using some Twitter library, like Twython, a Python Twitter library which I blogged about recently.

I found unfwd4.me through a Google search for "URL unshorteners", for something I'm working on. I only tried it with Twitter-shortened URLs that start with http://t.co. It worked for some of those.

Apart from unshortening your shortened URL, it also tries to shorten the already-shortened URL even more, and seems to work some - though sometimes only shorter by one character.

- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises

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