perl to python

[Aahz]

In article <slrnca4l2j.2qu4.kirk at eyegor.jobsluder.net>,
Kirk Job-Sluder  <kirk at eyegor.jobsluder.net> wrote:
>
>Well, there is another big difference. I'm a big fan of instant
>gratification so the off-the-shelf tool that does the job in 10 seconds
>is better than 5 minutes to 1 hour writing a pythonic tool.  I have
>re-written shell scripts in python just for kicks, but I don't have any
>illusions that refactoring everything into python should be a
>perogative.

If it takes you an hour to rewrite a ten-second job into a Pythonic
script, you don't know Python very well.  That kinda counters your claim
of a shallow learning curve for the other programs.
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