On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Aseem Bansal <asmbans...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, September 20, 2013 10:04:32 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Aseem Bansal <asmbans...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I hope that cleared some confusion about what I wanted to ask. I wanted to >> > gauge myself to find if I am progressing or not. >> >> Well, based on my definition, that's easy to answer. Have you solved >> problems using Python? If you have a bunch of HTML pages and you need >> to get some info out of all of them by COB today, do you think "I can >> do that with Python", or do you think "I can do that with sed, awk, >> grep, and five levels of pipe"? The tools you use for an urgent job >> will be the ones you know. >> >> ChrisA > > Yeah I have... > But that was pure luck that I had done the random example that you had > chosen. It would be difficult to find my overall progress by the one thing. > > I am currently unemployed so the sense of urgency isn't there normally. > That's why I asked this question. But I got your point.
It wasn't exactly a random example; it's an extremely common task (maybe without the "must be done today" restriction), and one that Python happens to do fairly well. :) There was a time, back in the 1990s, when REXX was my primary language. (We were exclusively an OS/2 shop at the time, so it was a good choice.) If I needed to write a quick script, it would be in REXX. If I needed to parse text, I'd use REXX. If I wanted a GUI app, I'd write it in VX-REXX. Later on, when I needed to write Windows code, I tended to use C++. It wasn't till the late 2000s that I started using Python for those sorts of jobs - even though I'd met the language back in the 90s - indicating that that's when I actually knew the language. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
