converting perl to python - simple questions.

[Tim Peters]

[Aahz Maruch]
> ...
> Perl 5 has been out for more than two years, and there are so many
> improvements that I don't know of *anyone* who's doing new work
> in Perl 4.

I do -- one crusty Unix sysadmin in particular who doesn't trust "all that
new stuff", still using his "better the devil you know" <wink> old Perl4.
He won't use Python either.  I subscribe him to functional-language mailing
lists just to keep him off balance <wink>.

perl-has-72-iterations-to-go-to-catch-up-to-fortran77-ly y'rs  - tim