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Re: Teams who have used or plan to use python for Robot Code

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Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe View Post
Since python isn't a supported language(as far as I know) the API support isn't there like it is for the other languages. Therefore much more of the background work is going to need to be done compared to the other 3 languages.

This is just my assumption though.
As far as the API goes, the 2015 robotpy includes a full-fledged, feature-complete port of the java wpilib. It will be a huge improvement over the python setups of previous years.

The biggest barrier at the moment to using python is community support. The group of teams using python is currently rather small, but it is growing rapidly. More and more teams are becoming aware of it's validity as an frc programming language
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