Hello vj > I'll try and do as much as possible in pexpect but am sure I'll have do > some significant perl. Any suggestions on what is the best way to get > upto speed on perl?
Perl is (imho) much more complex and somehow more powerful than Python (if you can handle it) - it has more development iterations behind it plus a large contibuting community - and their bear's den (CPAN) -- which will probably save your project some- times from debris falling around you. BUT! There is no problem in using a subset of Perl (called Baby-Perl) that allows you translating your Perl Scripts to Python by omitting $$ and { }, replace 'sub' by 'def' (plus some minor modifications). There is a nice "comparison" on Python and Perl available on the Web, which gave me a good laugh for more than 30 seconds ;-)) http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.20.165434.32.html (too bad - most responders didn't get the point of it) Regards, M. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list