why should I learn python

[Tim Williams]

On 07/09/07, Tom Brown <brown at esteem.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 September 2007 16:01, windandwaves wrote:
> > Hmmm, thank you all for your replies.  I will do some research on the
> > net (i did some already, but because I am really not much of a
> > programmer, it is often too detailed for me).  I have limited time,
> > but it does sound like something to learn, just for fun and for
> > practical use.  How would you use it in a web development
> > environment?  I mean, in real practical terms.  Could it assist with
> > php? Is it easy to write GUI programs in Python?
>
> Checkout http://www.djangoproject.com/ or http://turbogears.org/ for web
> development. Checkout http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/index.php for
> writing GUI programs. There are other options for GUI apps. That is the one I
> use all the time.

Also, check out Karrigell ( www.karrigell.com) .  It will show you
just how easy & fast Python can be for web development.  It has its
own web server, or it can sit behind Apache etc.

HTH :)