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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