A Python take on "Programming Web Graphics with Perl and..."
Stuart Hungerford
stuart.hungerford at webone.com.au
Fri May 7 19:55:02 EDT 1999
Joe Strout wrote:
>
> [...]
> > - Using GD for generating GIFs
> > - PerlMagick for controlling ImageMagick
> > - Charts and graphs with GIFgraph
> > - Scripting the Gimp
> > - Creating Postscript documents via Perl
>
> Ick -- if you're going to create documents via Perl, what's the point
> of using Python? OK, Python+Perl is better than Perl alone, but
> still... check out PIDDLE, which can directly create documents in a
> variety of formats (when it's done, which it is not quite yet):
>
> http://www.strout.net/python/piddle/
Sorry -- what I was getting at was a complete replacement of
Perl for Python in all the above activities.
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