I just started using python last week and I'm addicted. I hate Perl. I never did learn to use it with any competence. I has to be the most obfuscated, cryptic language I've ever seen. Making it "object oriented" only makes it worse !
While I am at it, I dislike bash shell programming too. Man, I love Python ! Its so clean and easy to use. Its so complete. It links into everything one way or another... Java, C, C++, Qt, KDE, SWT, Swing and probably more things that I don't know about. Python makes sense. Python is readable. I will never write another Perl or Bash script again. I will never use another low level language to do simple things again. I love how Python has object member lists in PyDev in Eclipe. It makes it easy to use and explore the language and objects. I wrote a simple command line serial emulator in about 10 minutes using the PySerial library. Unbelievable. I see a lot of Python in my future. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list