On Jul 24, 3:53 pm, Brett Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After many years happily coding Perl, I'm looking to expand my > horizons. [no flames please, I'm pretty aware of Perl's strengths and > weaknesses and I'm just here to learn more, not to enter religious > debates]. > > I've gone through some of the online tutorials and I'll be browsing > the reference before starting the "code a lot" phase. > > My question is: What are the best sources to learn best practices or > get the answers to questions? Are there any good sources to tell me > what Perl habits are good/bad in the Python paradigm? What about > common packages that will change my life? (I do a lot of web work, > but also a lot of DB reporting) I'm also working as a Java developer > primarily, so I'm glad to see that Jython has been resurrected, but > I'm focusing on vanilla Python for the moment. > > As examples: PerlMonks has been my info source. The Perl Best > Practices and Higher Order Perl books have been my tutors into better > coding practices. CPAN has my life easy, giving me access to the DBI, > Class::DBI (and its successors), HTML::FillInForm, > Data::FormValidator, CGI::Application, and Text::CSV::Simple modules > that are staples of my coding. The (occasionally complete) Perl > Advent calendars have proven to be a good source to learn about > helpful modules that I might not otherwise stumble across. > > (I've encountered Django, but I'm getting my fill of "frameworks" from > Java for the moment, so I'm looking for lightweight pieces at the > moment) > > My (admittedly brief) searches here and on google didn't lead me to > any particular spots of concentrated Python info, and most of the Perl/ > Python stuff is either a smug attack by one camp on the other or a > rant about the behavior of an obscure feature between the two. > > Any recommendations? Thanks in advance.
Best start is a quick read of DiveIntoPython that provides a nice account of how to work with Python, and relates to coming from a programming background. I also keep this List on my bookmarks, as well as the python library (http://docs.python.org//lib/). The ActiveState Python Cookbook (http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/ Python/Cookbook/) generally has a lot of useful code snippets worth using. Zen of Python (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/) shows the idea of Python and (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/) is the Style Guidelines for Python code. I haven't worked with the web and Python much yet so maybe someone else can help you there. Welcome :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
