I have used Perl for a long time, but I am something of an experimental person and mean to try something new. Most of my 'work' with Vector Linux entails the use of Perl (a bit of a misnomer as it is not now a paid position -- I am not yet even out of K-12), and there a lot of things I love about it. I can look past a number of misfeatures in Perl, but I am surprised to see that Python has very few (that I know of). Most of them are documented here, it would seem: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?PythonProblems. Is the Python debugger fairly stable? The one you get with Perl stinks on ice. More than anything else, I would like to have a powerful OO environment where I do not have to worry about the debugger sucking ass.
A couple blemishes I'm concerned about, though: Python closures are apparently very poor, but from what I can surmise of the PyGTK2 page, instances of objects are dynamic enough to add new methods, so you get your callbacks, at least. Double-underscore methods are rewritten with the class name? That's an ugly hack, but remember I'm coming from Perl. If the language doesn't pull many other hijinks, that's OK. I have plenty of docs and stuff, now I'm just looking for wisdom. As a seasoned Python user, what do you have to impart? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
