Python is the fifth most widely used language on the planet and is already used in Industrial Automation as a testing and scripting language.
It is the language of choice for ‘big data’ data analytics, is used in Microsoft Azure machine learning and is likely to have a greater role to play in Industrial Automation as ‘Big Data’, Cloud and Industrial Automation increasingly merge through what is known as Enterprise Internet of things, or Industry 4.0.
It is the most readable of the languages , using white space indentation to document code constructs succinctly ; ideal for a design specification.
HAL Software CTO Cormac Garvey provides a 20 minutes introduction to Python as implemented in Spike software. He discusses the reasoning behind why it was chosen, and provides some samples of its power in action within the Spike IDE.
He demonstrates how the ISA-S88 & ISA-S95 model within Spike may be manipulated using Python and the Spike integrated development environment.
Python for prototyping
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