Hi all, I'm a PHP5 developer looking to "broaden my horizons" so to speak by learning a new language. I emphasize the 5 in PHP since I have fully engrossed myself in the full OOP of version 5 with my own ground-up projects as well as some work with PRADO (http://pradosoft.com)
I've dabbled with a number of languages in the past, Python being no exception, but always ended up coming back to PHP due to being comfortable with it. Python has stuck to me as a language I _really_ think I should know more about. I've recently tried C#, a very short lived re-attempt at C++ and Java, and Ruby. None of those seemed "fun" except for Ruby, although from what I've seen the syntax between Ruby and Python are very similar to each other compared to the other languages. Anyway, my first question was if anyone knows of a tutorial that focuses on PHP -> Python learning, in such that there might be a block of PHP code alongside an example of how to do the same thing in Python. One example of something I've already mapped a comparison to thanks to standard tutorials is a PHP numeric indexed array being similar to a list and a PHP associative array being similar to a dictionary. Of course finding such of a tutorial isn't a deal breaker by any means, but I figured that having it available would be a boon for me to actually make some headway in my Python learning adventure. If there's anything else that could be said about the migration between the two languages, I'm all ears. I also don't really need to hear about how "disgusting" php is as a language...I am aware of the contained chaos that is PHP4, which is why I develop strictly in 5 using its OOP to the extent my feeble brain allows, a wariness toward the insecure pitfalls the language has begat in the past, and an attempt to produce as clean of a syntax as the language can allow. Thanks in advance for any help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
