[newbie] Is Python what I'm looking for?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <Pine.SOL.4.30.0205251841540.12910-100000 at mimosa.csv.warwick.ac.uk>,
John J. Lee <jjl at pobox.com> wrote:
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>You don't state whether or not you've done any programming before.  If you
>have, I would say you're better off with Python.  If not, though Python is
>a far saner language than Perl and takes much less time to learn to use
>well, Perl has the advantage of a very mature web client library,
>libwww-perl.  If you have no programming experience and want to get the
>job done and never write another program again, you may prefer Perl for
>this specific task.  Otherwise, IMO, use Python.
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... or, on yet another hand, one might choose cURL as a highly-
portable, even-more-mature-than-libwww, C-coded library, with a
binding to Python (among other languages).  This question arose
in private correspondence, and it occurs to me the answer might
interest others.  See <URL: http://
www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1820/uni1011713175619/0201i.htm >
for details.
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