Python tutorial/comparison for C++ programmer

[Cameron Laird]

In article <8b956c$9tn$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,
John Nielsen  <nielsenjf at my-deja.com> wrote:
>I tend to think of python as pseudo-code for C++. Check out Appendix F
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>Also, check out Bruce Eckel (founding member of the ANSI/ISO C++
>committee, wrote several C++ books, etc.), he seems to _love_ python.
He does, indeed.
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>Personally, I like python for win32, since python maps very nicely to
>C++ (i.e. I can look at the MSDN docs in C++ and write python code).
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>You can easily do low level Windows programming(pipes, threads, etc.)
>And of course, the important word is _easily_. It's much faster to
>write win32 python and win32 C++. And, if you need it to be C++, you
>can first get the basic idea working in python 1st.
This can hardly be overemphasized.  There are
even hints that Microsoftians are catching on
to the reality that Python is the best language
for Win32 development.  Think how remarkable
this is.
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