Perl Vs Python

ilya dont_mail_me at example.com
Thu Mar 6 12:54:16 EST 2003


Matija Papec wrote:
> X-Ftn-To: Cameron Laird 
> 
> claird at lairds.com (Cameron Laird) wrote:
> 
>>In article <b3kkdl$fvl$1 at news.peterlink.ru>,
>>Anton Muhin  <antonmuhin at sendmail.ru> wrote:
>>
>>>If you are interested, there is really nice book about text processing 
>>>in Python (I don't remember URL :().
>>
>>			.
>>			.
>>Sean McGrath's *XML Processing with Python*?
> 
> 
> Yes, but anyway who would pick Python over Perl(or Ruby?) for text
> processing? <evil grin> :)
I'd use sed if possible :) and awk if not and perl when
complexity grows.
I think using python might be an option if it's a text processing
project (i mean something big)
> 
> 





More information about the Python-list mailing list