Is python for me?

[dakman at gmail.com]

As stated above python is capable of all those things, however on
larger applications like that it can tend to slow down a bit. And the
executables do need a little bit of work, because it's bassicly a dll
and a library of all your .pyc files. However python is still a great
language and I would recomend it. And most of these things will
probably be fixed in Python 3000!
Cameron Laird wrote:
> In article <1163437873.721254.31070 at b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> lennart <l.m.aangeenbrug at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm planning to learn a language for 'client' software. Until now, i
> >'speak' only some web based languages, like php. As a kid i programmed
> >in Basic (CP/M, good old days :'-) ) Now i want to start to learn a
> >(for me) new computer language.
> >
> >I like Python. Its free, easy to learn and some favorite programs of my
> >are written in Python / can understand Python (like OpenOffice) etc.
> >
> >But I'm not a full-time programmer. I know, that I've only time &
> >possibility to learn one (= 1) language good. So i ask myself is python
> >the language I'm looking for?
> >
> >In the future, i want to write the following applications:
> >[*] A database driven program, which can handle my clients, tasks and
> >places (= 3 tables, has to work relative with each other). I think,
> >this isn't a problem for Python
> >[*] As a photographer i like to build a picture management system (also
> >db) with raw support. Raw is the raw-data from the sensor of the
> >camera. My questions:
> >- can python encode raw?
> >- can python head for a utility like dcraw?
> >- or head for a utility like IrfanView (delphi?) or something like
> >that?
> 			.
> 			.
> 			.
> Yes.
>
> Yes, Python is generally capable in all the roles you describe.
> Perhaps most exciting, though, is that you can try out the
> language yourself, TODAY, over the next few hours, and, in no
> more time than that, get a realistic if limited idea how it's
> likely to work for you.  With the right introduction <URL:
> http://docs.python.org/tut/ > you can be coding usefully in
> Python very quickly.