Hi All, Thanks to all that replied.
I noticed that someone said that the way you used regular expressions changed at some point. That is probably what upset the person I was talking to about python they are a huge perl fan and use regular expressions heavily. The reason for asking about the .jar type functionality was to try and make it easier to distribute the application as some people said. I run linux systems and if I want to give the app to a windows user then I don't really want to muck about trying to create a windows install for them as I don't personally have a copy of windows to do it with so I thought that just giving them one file and telling them to install the run time environment would make it easier. I tend to use the shebang #!/usr/bin/env python in my scripts so far but I imagine that having that would not work on say windows. Or is there some kind of file extension association for people running windows instead of the shebang? I saw on the python site a slide from 1999 that said that python was slower then java but faster to develop with is python still slower then java? -- Kind Regards, Anthony Irwin http://www.irwinresources.com http://www.makehomebusiness.com email: anthony at above domains, - www. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
