lennart wrote: > But I'm not a full-time programmer. I know, that I've only time & > possibility to learn one (= 1) language good. So i ask myself is python > the language I'm looking for?
Yep! Python is very much a jack-of-all-trades language. I've used it for similar tasks, including as a front-end for dcraw (I have a little python script to slurp images from a camera with dcraw and convert them all to JPEG). Python has excellent libraries for image manipulation (for example Python Imaging Library) and for abstracting an SQL database to an object-oriented form that makes it a snap to work with (I love SQLAlchemy). You can learn Python really fast, and it sort of guides you in the right direction by providing a correct way to do almost everything without constraining you, so that your code will be consistent and readable. This, in my opinion, is Python's chief advantage over Perl, which is the other highly popular dynamic jack-of-all-trades language. I learned Perl about 10 years ago and loved it for a while, but it's messy as heck and I find my own code from a few months ago nearly unreadable... I also spend a lot more time debugging Perl code because there are so many error-prone things that are silenty allowed rather than flagged as errors. I've been using Python for several months and it's just great for everything. I think it's an ideal first or only programming language! I've had no reason to write a program in anything else since learning Python, and I write a LOT of little throwaway programs. Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
