Oscar Trelles

Flash Developers and Python

I don’t have any statistics to support my statement, but after having a number of interviews and meetings with prospective clients, I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s some sort of relationship between Flash and Python.

For some reason, a couple of people that interviewed me during the past few weeks assumed that I might be interested in doing some Python programming on the side, _because_ I’m a Flash developer. This relationship between Python and Flash might not be obvious to me because of my lack of formal programming background, and that I don’t find fun on learning new programming languages, if I don’t have to. For example, I can say that I’m good with PHP and that it has been fun learning, but I wouldn’t have tried to get to know PHP if I didn’t need it at work.

So, what does Python offer, particularly to Flash developers? Is there any particular reason it is so popular within our kind?

For those interested in learning more about Python:
- What is Python?
- General Python FAQ