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Grant Sewell <dclug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
So, I was thinking about taking a stab at Perl or Python. From what I've seen so far, I quite like the look of Python, so I was wondering if anyone had any advice on places to get good "teach yourself Python" sites/books/whatevers? I am presuming there's at least one O'Reilly book on it - anyone read it/them? Any good?
For quick and dirty gui apps that you want to be able to come back to to improve and bugfix, Python every time, while for most things I prefer perl, python has a nice clean syntax and avoids some of the weirdnesses and gotchas of writing perl/tk apps. All the python I know I gleaned from Learning Python, from O'Reilly, and from the web. I imagine that Programming Python is very good as well. The only real issues with Python is that it isn't quite as fast as perl, and has a habit if developing slow memory leaks if you aren't careful, mainly when you have circular references so that the garbage collection mechanism can't clean up after itself. -- James jamesk[at]homeric[dot]co[dot]uk "There's a sucker born every minute." -- Mother Teresa -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html