Python is fun (useless social thread) ;-)

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-06-15, John Salerno <johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:

> So out of curiosity, I'm just wondering how everyone else came
> to learn it. If you feel like responding, I'll ask my
> questions for easy quoting:

I didn't want to use Outlook to read my e-mail, so I needed a
way to get them onto a non-MS box.  The only way to suck my
e-mails out of the MS server was to use the COM API built into
Outlook.

I didn't have any development tools on the Windows machine and 
wasn't about to pay MS for a C/C++ compiler.

Google found me an example of doing COM stuff using Python.

It turns out that using Python was way easier than using C
would have been.

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