why should I learn python

[Tom Brown]

On Thursday 06 September 2007 16:01, windandwaves wrote:
> Hmmm, thank you all for your replies.  I will do some research on the
> net (i did some already, but because I am really not much of a
> programmer, it is often too detailed for me).  I have limited time,
> but it does sound like something to learn, just for fun and for
> practical use.  How would you use it in a web development
> environment?  I mean, in real practical terms.  Could it assist with
> php? Is it easy to write GUI programs in Python?

Checkout http://www.djangoproject.com/ or http://turbogears.org/ for web 
development. Checkout http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/index.php for 
writing GUI programs. There are other options for GUI apps. That is the one I 
use all the time.

Good luck,
Tom