[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: > John J. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "A.M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Is there any efficient online resource or book that help experienced Perl > > > programmers to Python? > > > > Worry instead about how you're going to keep maintaining your Perl > > code after you've developed an allergic response to it. > > Nah, that's easy -- you port it to Python (that's what I did back in the > day, and I've heard at least three others relate similar choices).
Or, in my case, throwing away the Perl I had because I found I had written something much more useful in Python. A little bit of experience on a smallish (or largish!) from-scratch Python project does of course make a difference: Perl and Python are sufficiently close in many things that it's easy to get tunnel vision when porting Perl to Python. A little knowledge of Python idioms, techniques, standard library modules, etc., gained outside of that narrow context, goes a long way to prevent that. OTOH, the often-mechanical nature of porting .pl->.py, and the great flexibility of both languages, does certainly make it easier to switch. John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
