Two questions about Python..

[Cameron Laird]

In article <83r8qj6gi8.fsf at panacea.canonical.org>,
Kragen Sitaker  <kragen at pobox.com> wrote:
>Ville Vainio <vvainio at karhu.tp.spt.fi> writes:
>
>> Ken <khirmint at hotmail.com> writes:
>> > I'm looking into using Python for a project, and was wondering how does
>> > Python rank up against other scripting languages for speed?
>
>It's about as fast as Perl, much faster than Tcl or sh, and much
>slower than Lua, a good Scheme, FORTH, or GhostScript, in my
>experience.  HTH.
>

And it depends, of course, on the kind of project of interest.
Numeric makes Python a world-beater for many problems, for
example.
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