A good forum for perl programmers too.. "Python is object-oriented. Although Perl has object orientation facilities they are not integrated into the system. In Python everything is an object or class – even the base data types are objects and have their own methods and attributes. This makes Python a great language to use in situations where you are working on applications that use object orientation as a core technology. Python is easy to use. Python has a very clean and structured layout, and it's very easy to follow what's going on. Perl can frequently look like line noise, and particularly for new programmers this becomes a problem as they try to understand why their program works. Python does what you tell it to. Perl suffers from a severe case of semi-intelligence. Statements and expressions in Perl have all sorts of rules, exceptions to those rules, and other artefacts that can make it difficult to follow what is going on. Just think about what happens when you call a function, was it called in list or scalar context?, what arguments did it have?, how do I get them back? These are regular questions when programming with Perl. Python is cross-platform compatible. Perl is also cross-platform compatible, for certain values of compatible. Because of Perl's Unix roots – it is very much a Unix language – use Perl under Windows or MacOS and a large proportion of the built-in functions become obsolete. Python's functionality is supported by external modules, many of which use the correct version according to their platform whilst retaining the same API." Source: Perl To Python Migration By Martin C. Brown ISBN :0-201-73488-5 On 3/14/11, ashok+skunkworks@parliaments.info <ashok+skunkworks@parliaments.info> wrote:

We’ll be running the First "Nairobi Python User Group" meetup today the 14th of March at the iHub (http://www.ihub.co.ke/pages/about.php ) . We will start at 18:00 for coffee and talks. Hopefully this will become a monthly event.

This is the mailing list of the group -- <http://groups.google.com/group/naipug>

During this meetup there will be a presentation of "Bungeni - an Open Source parliamentary and legislative information system" which has been developed on Python (See http://www.bungeni.org , http://bungeni-portal.googlecode.com ), and incidentally the core development team lives in Nairobi :-)

Bungeni aims to increase the efficiency of parliamentary activities and make Parliaments more open and accessible to citizens. After the presentation there will be a question /answer session .

All Python interested folks are welcome . If you have any interested friends or colleagues, try to bring them along too. _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke