perl to python

[Peter Hickman]

Ville Vainio wrote:
> It's funny, but somehow I can't really think of cases that a
> specialized language would do better (ignoring the performace, which
> is rarely a concern in sysadmin tasks) than Python with some
> modules.

There is more to computer usage than sysadmin tasks, sed is an ideal 
tool for processing large sets of large files (I have to handle small 
files that are only 130 Mb in size, and I have around 140,000 of them).

Performance is not an issue you can ignore when you are handling large 
amounts of data. Long may sed and awk live, just have to make sure that 
the O'Reilly's are to hand because the syntax is a bugger.