[Tutor] Sun says: Don't use Java, use Python!

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> The script will be over 3,000 lines long. 

Wooooh! Way too long. Break it into modules.
I use the import/execute trick if my main module is a few 
hundred lines, but many hundreds and certainly thousands 
means you should put it in modules. Provided you can group 
the functions into some kind of logical grouping then it 
should help long term maintenance

> In order to parse the RTF, it has to make a dozen or so 
> passes through the file. 

The RTF file I assume? Therefore the code is oinside a loop?
In which case the compilation of the entire module will 
already be done.

> The newer perl script (not the one above) makes a module for each pass
> through the file. I thought this was bad design, because I had a dozen
> or so modules.

Assuming you mean a different function (perl sub?) then thats fine, 
put them in modules. I assume you don't mean thast your script is 
dynamically creating code modules and executing them as it goes? 
Now that would be interesting code!!

Alan G