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<p class=MsoPlainText>> > 2009/3/17 <<a
href="mailto:Abhinayaraj.Raju@emulex.com">Abhinayaraj.Raju@emulex.com</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> >> Could anyone suggest whether there is any
Python to Perl code convertors?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> >> I found one on the net viz. Perthon. But it
wasn’t really helping out.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> > I am just a beginner learning both the languages.
Wondered if I can have some<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> comparative understanding of both.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> I think automatic translation would be a very bad
way of getting<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> understanding of both. Translating from another
language to Python<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> usually leads to very un-Pythonic code -
syntactically correct and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> working Python, but not 'real' Python. I assume that
translating from<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> Python to Perl will lead to something similarly
un-Perlish.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> --<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> André Engels, <a href="mailto:andreengels@gmail.com">andreengels@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> Thanks Andre for your suggestions!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Maybe something like <a href="http://www.rosettacode.org">www.rosettacode.org</a>
would be helpful.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>It has (hopefully) idiomatic implementations of common
programming tasks in many languages (Python and Perl included).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Drea<o:p></o:p></p>
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