Python surpasses Perl in popularity?

[david.lyon at preisshare.net]

Quoting John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net>:

> Care to elaborate on the relative unsophistication of Python
> spreadsheet reading and writing libraries?
>
> Cheers,
> John

Not really.

But one only has to use both languages on a regular basis to realise  
that perl is well ahead on the libaray/module front.

Some things in python are still pretty primitive...

but I know a lot of work has gone into them... just not anywhere near  
like what you see in perl.

David