Using Python after a few years of Ruby

[Emmanuel Surleau]

Hi
> > 1) Is there anything like a Python build tool? (Or do I
> > even need something like that?)
>
> If you're going to run the python source code, you don't need anything.
> Python builds what it needs automagically. Some tools exist to build
> stand-alone executables though, if you'd like to do so (e.g. py2exe,
> http://www.py2exe.org)

That's not what the gentleman is looking for. Rake is a ruby version of make. 
It lets you run tasks with dependencies. You use this for repetitive tasks, 
administration, etc. Very convenient.

> > 3) Web frameworks
>
> I quite like the powerful and very intuitive and easy to use web2py
> (http://www.web2py.com).
>
> (not to be confused with the minimalist web framework web.py,
> http://webpy.org).

Looks interesting.

Cheers,

Emm