On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:49:32 -0800, diffuser78 wrote: > I have just started to learn python. Some said that its slow.
No, you can learn the basics of Python is only a few hours, and become very proficient at it in days or weeks. It is much faster to learn Python than to learn C. > Can somebody pin point the issue. What is slow? Slow compared to what? Would you prefer to spend three days writing a program that will run in twenty milliseconds, or three hours writing the same program which runs in eighty milliseconds? Is the computer's execution time more important than your development time? If the computer's time is more valuable than your time, then you should be writing in assembly language. Python helps you write shorter code with fewer bugs, much quicker, than C. If you discover a specific problem that runs too slow in Python, it is possible to write a C extension to solve that specific problem, while still having all the other advantages of Python. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
