Python! And the Raspberry Pi

Exploring the Python Programming Language to Control the RPi Camera

Appropriate that the RPi comes out of  John Cleese's Head

I have done wonderful things with the Raspi camera from the command line, and I'm totally satisfied that this RPi peripheral will satisfy all my needs for imaging. Now before me is the arduous task of controlling the camera via code in a web interface. Enter PYTHON!

Taken from Wikipedia...

An important goal of the Python developers is making Python fun to use. This is reflected in the origin of the name which comes from Monty Python,^[34] and in an occasionally playful approach to tutorials and reference materials, for example using spam and eggs instead of the standard foo and bar.^[35][36]

Being a huge fan of "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", "The Meaning of Life", and just about every episode of "Monty Python", I had to give this language a chance. I have written in DOS, assembly for an amazing list of processors, C, C+, C++, and C#, VS, VB, VBA, PHP, Java, HTML, and ASP. What's one more language? Except for confusing the common conventions, I'm excited about getting ANY Linux-friendly language under my belt. On thing I hate though, is not having a full debugging environment in an IDE, or even HAVING an IDE. Both of these issues don't exist anymore with Python, or so I have read.

So here I go, armed with a new language, a new platform, and new hardware. Discovery is where dreams are made, realized, and brought to reality!

More when I discover and code it. =)