translating Perl Cookbook?

[Wayne Izatt]

A somewhat similar effort is "The eff-bot Guide to the Python Standard
Library" by Fredrik Lundh. Its a great way to quickly apply standard
library functions to everyday problems. The Perl Cookbook, however, is a
great deal deeper and includes excellent explanations of how everything
works. I keep it handy for its algorithms, even when I'm coding in
Python.

That said, the eff-bot book is only available as eMatter from fatbrain,
and my experience with them has been nothing short of a nightmare - 7-day
turnaround on email; the same, broken, version of the pdf file sent
twice; an idiotic copy-prevention scheme that prevents me from using the
text unless I'm online and not behind a firewall. Worst of all, its a
Windows-only system.

Still, I reccommend it highly.

(If we could get enough volunteers together, perhaps we could split up
the Perl Cookbook, and each deliver one fully translated and explained
recipe every other week or so). Oh, for a 36-hour day!

cheers

steven2 at satunet.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just  wondering  if  anybody  is interested in translating the recipes
> (and  as  much as the other code snippets) from The Perl Cookbook into
> Python.
>
> I  understand  that  some  code will not translate smoothly or produce
> "optimal"  Python  code,  but  the purpose is to help people with Perl
> background  to  learn and master Python faster -- as they will tend to
> expect  Python  to  be  able  to  do many of the tasks they previously
> accomplish using Perl. A greater proportion of the recipes in the Perl
> Cookbook  is  not  about Perl syntax, but about doing common tasks, so
> perhaps we should concentrate on those parts first.
>
> I hope this will be a fun project; being a Perl coder and currently in
> the Python learning curve, I thought that working on this project will
> be a great way to learn Python for me.  :-)
>
> If there is enough interest, I will setup an account at SourceForge to
> host this project so that people can contribute code.
>
> Regards,
> Steven Haryanto