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I wish there were good companies in India using Python. Most companies claiming to do so just tack on Python to a long list of languages they use and don't really use it significantly. I know great programmers who would kill for a decent paying job in Django/Python.

The "do crap work outsourced to India" idea is what the Indian software industry is built around. Lots of java/dotnet.Some Ruby on Rails, thanks to the marketing of RoR. Very little python. :(

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Not to sound like, well, everybody else on the site, but if you think there's a market for it, why not start up an Indian Python consultancy?

Hell, even "Indian Python" sounds cool.

Or "Indian Rock Python"

"One of the unique features of the Rock pythons of India is that they can raise their body temperature above the ambient level, through muscular contractions." http://www.iloveindia.com/wildlife/indian-snakes/python.html

We are 100% Indian product company - the product is Indian and built for the Indian market (although we have customers in 80 countries).

I would classify us as a "very good company" and we use python for our scripting needs though our major work is in C/C++. Does that make you feel a bit better? :-)

"I would classify us as a "very good company" and we use python for our scripting needs though our major work is in C/C++. Does that make you feel a bit better? :-)"

Which company is this anyway? What is your product?

Tally (www.tallysolutions.com)

Interesting, I thought Tally was written in C (C++? I knew someone who worked on Tally long ago . I have the impression it was primarily C or C++ ). You did say scripting - Do you use much Python? What's the ratio of Python to C++/C?

Tally is entirely written in C/C++/assembly + TDL (which is a DSL).

However, to manage development, we have our own in-house SCM tool (which uses SVN as a backend). This tool is written entirely in python. Additionally, some small build utilities etc are also written in python. That's what I meant by "scripting needs".

Apologies for the slow replies btw - I haven't been checking HN regularly.

"Tally is entirely written in C/C++/assembly + TDL (which is a DSL)."

Interesting! I once knew some people who wanted to create a "startup" to compete aginst Tally. It didn't go anywhere, but I thought it was an interesting idea.

"Apologies for the slow replies btw "

No worries.

> I once knew some people who wanted to create a "startup" to compete aginst Tally.

Heh - every year we have dozens of Tally clones that come up. In fact, I know at least two people working in Tally who had, at some point in the past, developed products that were Tally competitors/clones.

While not as much as in the west, there are plently of companies that use Python in India and not all of them "do crap work outsourced to India". Here's a list

http://wiki.python.org/moin/BangPypers/PythonCompaniesInIndi...

A local user group in Bangalore is organising the first Indian PyCon right now and we've talked to many companies (some Indian and some not) about sponsorships because they use Python.

You say,

"there are plently of companies that use Python in India and not all of them "do crap work outsourced to India"."

Interesting. I see Tavant (outsourcing company), servelots (looking for people with java sql tomcat -hardly indicates a Python focus), moog (nothing very python specific and seems to follow the "offshore India dev centre" model - high probability of dealing with crap work the folks in the West don't want to do), Trellisys (outsourcing) , DIQ (I can't even make out what they do. Seems like a company run by a bunch of jokers, see their blog!).

Can you point out any companies working primarily with python don't do outsourcing, and have sophisticated python based products in that list? If you can't doesn't that just prove my point?

I remember products from Tachyon (http://tachyon.in, the makers of QuillPad) using Python. Some of them are even open-source!

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