Please assist- Python Consultant needed for 3-6 month project

[Alan Meyer]

On Aug 30, 12:06 pm, "Kelley McNeillie"
<kmcneil... at softwarespecialists.com> wrote:

> ... We are looking for a python developer with  web-based
> application experience. ... I am finding this skill pretty much
> impossible to identify locally ...

Kelley,

I don't know if your client is willing to pay for a week or two
of non-productive time, but I think a good Perl programmer with
web development experience could pick up Python in a week, and a
good Java or C# programmer could pick it up in two weeks.

I've personally always believed that, when comparing a good
programmer with no specific experience in a particular language,
and an average programmer with lots of experience, the good
programmer will outperform the average one in any task lasting
more than a couple of months.

Of course I haven't always been able to convince managers of
that.

    Alan