Python versus VB

[Simon Foster]

I am meeting with a potential client next week to
discuss starting a new project.  His preference is for
VB whereas I would prefer Python for obvious reasons ;-)

Could anybody come up with a short list of the pros and
cons of the two languages (I am not terribly familiar
with the strengths/weaknesses of VB).  This will be a
general-purpose text-processing type application with no
GUI required.

--
Simon Foster
Somewhere in the West of England