> No, I learned it because Perl was too dirty and Java to complicated. > Now it is part of my daily job.
Ditto. I was fed up of writing, compiling and running a java application just in order to do a quick script. I'd used perl, but quite frankly perl's a ridiculous language. Ruby looked promising, but perl had already poisoned my mind against the syntax... Python was clean, object oriented if you want it, and mature. > > Also, how did you go about learning it? > > Programming, reading this newsgroup, reading the python cookbook, > reading python source files of the standard library. > > Are there still some things you feel you need to learn or improve? I feel like I've got a pretty good grasp of the core language now, but there's always something that pops up in the group that I find I've not dabbled in (such as the itertools, which I discovered on the group last week(?) and have been using to great effect already!). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
