Heroku just added support for yet another language: Python. Heroku added partial support for Python via Facebook for Heroku earlier this month, but this marks the first time the platform-as-a-service has supported the language for all developers. Heroku is also supporting Django, a Web application framework that is to Python as Ruby on Rails is to Ruby.

You can find a quick start guide for Python on the Heroku blog.

PHP was the other language partially supported by Facebook for Heroku, so look for that next.

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New language support announcements are coming from PaaS providers faster than ever. Just this morning Engine Yard announced support for JRuby.