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I wonder if Guido is behind this. He wrote the Datastore API for AppEngine, and transferred to Dropbox last year.

Yes, Guido wrote the datastores part of the Python SDK and also played a big role in the design of the Datastore API itself.

Are dropbox front-end and apis built with Python at first place?

I'm not sure I understand the question. Dropbox uses Python heavily both server-side and client-side. Does that help?

Sure , i was talking about the website users and api clients "see" , as opposed to "back-end" , ie , all the infrastructure used to manage files,ect...

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