> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kj > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:39 AM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Python noob SOS (any [former?] Perlheads out there?) > > > > For many months now I've been trying to learn Python, but I guess > I'm too old a dog trying to learn new tricks... For better or > worse, I'm so used to Perl when it comes to scripting, that I'm > just having a very hard time getting a hang of "The Python Way." > > It's not the Python syntax that I'm having problems with, but rather > with larger scale issues such as the structuring of packages, > techniques for code reuse, test suites, the structure of > distributions,... Python and Perl seem to come from different > galaxies altogether...
It sound like less of a "How to do Things the Python Way" problem, a more of a "How to do Object Oriented Programming" problem. Coming from a C++/Perl background, I found the O'Reilly 'Learning Python' book to be useful. It has a section on OOP, which covers basic OO theory that you may find useful. I can't think of a decent OO book to recommend though. > Be that as it may, the activation barrier to using Python for my > scripting remains too high. > > I'd written a Perl module to facilitate the writing of scripts. > It contained all my boilerplate code for parsing and validating > command-line options, generating of accessor functions for these > options, printing of the help message and of the full documentation, > testing, etc. Bleh. Perl and Python have really good libraries. Why waste time rolling your own when you can use Python's getopt or optparse, or Perl's Getopt and Getopt::Long? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
