Hello everyone, I know this is not a direct python question, forgive me for that, but maybe some of you will still be able to help me. I've been told that for my application it would be best to learn a scripting language, so I looked around and found perl and python to be the nice. Their syntax and "way" is not similar, though. So, I was wondering, could any of you please elaborate on the following, as to ease my dilemma:
1. Although it is all relatively similar, there are differences between regexes of these two. Which do you believe is the more powerful variant (maybe an example) ? 2. They are both interpreted languages, and I can't really be sure how they measure in speed. In your opinion, for handling large files, which is better ? (I'm processing files of numerical data of several hundred mb - let's say 200mb - how would python handle file of such size ? As compared to perl ?) 3. This last one is somewhat subjective, but what do you think, in the future, which will be more useful. Which, in your (humble) opinion "has a future" ? Thank you for all the info you can spare, and expecially grateful for the time in doing so. -- Ivan p.s. Having some trouble posting this. If you see it come out several times, please ignore the copies. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list