Perl to Python Migration

by Martin C. Brown

Perl programmers: Leverage your Perl skills with Python. Key issues developers face in migrating to Python--and practical solutions. Includes an in-depth introduction to Python's object-oriented... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201734885
• ISBN13: 9780201734881
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Very good language cross reference

I'm an avid Perl programmer who's wanted to do more with Python, but never seem to have the time to actually _do_ something in Python because I run out of time and end up doing it in Perl. This book has helped me get over that hurdle by providing a useful cross reference, so if you want to do X in Perl (with a perl code example that looks very typical), do Y in Python (with a plausible code fragment). I would have rated this book 5 stars, as it very clearly achieves its stated goal. Unfortunately it is absolutely riddled with minor typo's. Perhaps that will be fixed in a future edition, but for now it makes life a bit more difficult since you have to pay very close attention to what is in the book vs. what you might already know and correct the book where it is wrong.