[Chicago] Perl Follow-up

[Alex Gaynor]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Clyde Forrester
<clydeforrester at gmail.com> wrote:
> I raised some issues about Perl vs. Python, and I'd like to invite some
> comment and advice.
>
> First, can anyone recommend a properly Pythonic way of doing translations?
>
> One example of such translations would be complementing DNA sequences.
> Translating T to A, A to T, C to G, and G to C.
>

>>> import string
>>> trans = string.maketrans("TACG", "ATGC")
>>> my_dna = "agtcaagta".upper()
>>> my_dna.translate(trans)
[10] 'TCAGTTCAT'


> Another example would be ROT-13 encryption and decryption.
>
> Second, where does one properly look for Python resources such as
> programming examples?
>
> Third, if I forgot an important question, go ahead and answer it anyway.
>
> Finally, I left out an anecdote about regular expressions: Someone recently
> posted a Perl data-parsing problem using regular expressions. Many things
> were suggested and tried. Nothing quite worked. Finally, I suggested that
> since the data seemed to be in fixed columns, that substrings should be used
> instead of pattern matching. It seems to have worked. (Oh, but.. but.. but
> regex is so wicked cool!)
>
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Alex

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