Moving from Perl to Python
greg andruk
meowing at banet.net
Fri Sep 24 11:03:58 EDT 1999
In nnmh:python, Thomas Weholt <thomas at bibsyst.no> wrote:
> Another thing that could help was if there was a document describing how
> to migrate from Perl to Python, with examples.
I just mailed you a copy of TomC's thingy. It's not quite up to date
but should help you get a good feel for where to look for things.
> PS ! I`m using hashes and modules in Perl, like MLDBM and MP3Info, are
> there any similar modules for Python? I know Python can read hash-tables
> created with the DB_File-module, but can it read/write files created
> with the MLDBM-module?
Now you're getting into the languages' internal storage formats, so
you're likely to need to convert the data before switching languages.
However, you can do the same sort of hashes-of-structures thing that
MLDBM does using Python's standard shelve module.
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