Python vs. Perl, which is better to learn?

[Aahz]

In article <9IcA8.90097$vF6.2684221 at news2.tin.it>,
Alex Martelli  <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
>Aahz wrote:
>>
>> What I'd like is an argument to specify how many command-line args to
>> skip over, say if you're writing something like grep.py.
>
>import fileinput, sys, re
>there = re.compile(sys.argv.pop(1))
>for line in fileinput.input():
>    if there.search(line): print line,

Thanks!  I don't really like "print line,", because it adds an extra
space that wasn't there before, so I prefer sys.stdout.write().  It's a
matter of taste, though.
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