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Should i give python a try on text processing

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 1:40 pm
by pedrotuga
I wrote a few scripts in PHP to spider some websites for some content.
I find PHP very practical to manipulate text.

As there is a HUGE mambo-jambo about the wonders of python, i would like to give it a try.

No apecial features such as multi-thread or memory management will be used, it will basically consist on HTTP, mysql and regular expression match operations.

Should i give python a try ( this would be a way to climb it's learning curve )?
Or should i just stick to PHP?

I love PHP, i think it's great a dead simple, i hardly belive any other language has so practical tools to manipulate text as PHP.... but i would like to give a try on python.

For those with experience... is it to manipulate text in python? as easy as php?

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:31 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I have no experience with Python, but I have to say that if you have the unction and the means, why not learn something new?

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:10 pm
by alex.barylski
PERL = Practical Extraction & Reporting Language...Perl is well known for it's text handling capabilities...so perhaps that would be better time invested???

Python, as I understand it has it's focus more geared to towards a stricter object model...that's it strong point as a script language...PHP is ease of use Perl is it's text handling, etc...

Just my 2 cents :)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:45 pm
by Luke
I've been trying to decide whether I want to dive into Python or Java next... but both are a ways off yet. I am leaning towards java though.

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:47 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Me too. I am thinking of trying to get my company to pay for me to go to school to learn Java.