Web Crawler - Python or Perl?

[disappearedng at gmail.com]

As to why as opposed to what, I am attempting to build a search engine
right now that plans to crawl not just html but other things too.

I am open to learning, and I don't want to learn anything that doesn't
really contribute to building my search engine for the moment. Hence I
want to see whether learning PERL will be helpful to the later parts
of my search engine.

Victor