A small tidbit:
In college I wrote a small python program to download the latest dilbert comic from the web and display it in a window. It did http downloads and regex matching and caching of images so that we don't download the same one twice... It ran on a Linux box.
When I started work and my laptop became WindowsXP fulltime, I converted that python script to windows. I had to change exactly 2 lines: The line containing the folder path and the command to display the image in a window. When I got PyS60 running on my phone I ported to the script to my phone... and had to change exactly 2 lines: The line containing the folder path and the command to display the image. Granted, the script was less than 100 lines but all the networking\strings\regex\os i/o stuff worked without change.
Speaks a lot for python's portability.
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A small tidbit: In college I wrote a small python program to download the latest dilbert comic from the web and display it in a window. It did http downloads and regex matching and caching of images so that we don't download the same one twice... It ran on a Linux box. When I started work and my laptop became WindowsXP fulltime, I converted that python script to windows. I had to change exactly 2 lines: The line containing the folder path and the command to display the image in a window. When I got PyS60 running on my phone I ported to the script to my phone... and had to change exactly 2 lines: The line containing the folder path and the command to display the image. Granted, the script was less than 100 lines but all the networking\strings\regex\os i/o stuff worked without change. Speaks a lot for python's portability.
That's story makes for a great Python testimonial!
PS: I didn't know you ever wrote any Python.. thought it was Perl/PHP/Java all the time!
Err.. my brother's initials are HS!