[Tutor] is it a right choice?

[Payal Rathod]

Hi,
Before I venture in the python infested world, I want to ask whether I
am making a right choice by taking python as my first programming
language. I cannot program in C, C++ or Java etc. I can *just* do little
shell scripting.
My objective in learning a better language is that I have huge log files
in my office and get many logs files from friends who are sytem admins.
I love to analyse those files and find out browing habits of my compnay
(from squid logs), most number of mails sent to a domain ( like
hotmail), number of bytes data transferred thru' http, pop3 and smtp
etc. I prefer to write my own programs to do these things.
With rudimentary shell scripting knowledge analysing log files which are
many times over 200Mb is difficult so I was seeking a language which can
do these tasks beautifully without getting too much involved in
underlying concepts.
Am I looking for Python? Is Perl easier to learn for a newbie than
python? Is it OK to continue with Python?

Also can Python produce binary programs like perl (perlcc)?

Thanks,
With warm regards,
-Payal






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