[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > which feature of python do you like most? > > I've heard from people that python is very useful. > Many people switch from perl to python because they like it more. > > I am quite familiar with perl, I've don't lots of code in perl. > Now, I was curious and interested in the python people. > They certainly made their best choice from perl to python. > > but i have no interesting python experence before, thought i've read a > few chapters > of a python tutorial book. The things are much like the perl one. > > I have no idea why people are so facinating with python. > So I post this question: What do you use in your dairy work with > python? > what is the thing that python makes you happy? > > > I certainly don't want to miss a language if it's so great! > can anyone share your happy experence with python?
Big Arithmetic. I switched from perl to Python when I heard it had built-in support for unlimited precision integers. Sure, I found out later that perl has a Big Arithmetic module, but I had already been converted to Python which also has the gmpy module (the Gnu Multiple Precision library). Python/gmpy is a pretty hard combination to beat. You can get better performance with c and GMP, but c is a low-level language. I even compared it to Java and its Big Arithmetic module. Python/gmpy can actually outperform Java as the problem/operators get very large (when most of the time in the Python program is spent in the gmpy module which is compiled c code). I've toyed with REXX (ridiculously slow), UBASIC (ugh, and precision limited to 3000 digits, woefully inadequate for my needs), Java (see above) and Scheme (alien, and implementations suck). I haven't found anything yet that combines the ease of programming with the power I need to make me switch from Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
