> but did not give importance to it. I am hearing a lot about Python > again recently. I was wondering what Python is good for and how will > it help me, since I am already comfortable with C.
One line of Python ~= 10 lines of C So in terms of delivering results quickly Python is much faster than C. Python is also much more reliable than C since there is almost no memory management so you don't get NULL pointers, buffer overruns etc. But, Python is about 5-10 times slower than C and doesn't play well with direct memory access or hardware access, so if you need that stick with C. Or at least write those functions in C and access them from Python... > Could someone tell me how Python is useful and why is it a good > language to learn apart from C. There is an promotional section on the python web site giving the plus points. They are mostly the same plus points you find for any scripting language but python adds readability, modularity and a good OOP model - certainly better than C++ and java etc. > Also please point me to a good starting point for learning Python. If you know C just start with the official tutorial at www.python.org Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
