- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (18 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201734885
- ISBN-13: 978-0201734881
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 18.6 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,895,636 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Perl to Python Migration provides a useful and practical resource for programmers that are currently intermediate or expert in using Perl and who want to migrate to using Python for different programming projects. The book achieves this by first giving the user an overview and refresher of the Perl techniques required before giving the information on using Python to achieve the same result. Examples of both Python and Perl will be available on-line on the author's website.
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Perl to Python Migration Martin C Brown Are you a Perl programmer who would like to be able to programme in Python? Brimming with a wealth of practical examples and resources this book will show you how. The Book The first section will show you the basic layout and approach of the two languages whilst the second section moves on to the specific differences of using Python data types and objects over Perl variables. The book then moves on to look at the core technologies behind the Python language, including the exception system for handling errors, the class and object orientation system for creating new classes and instances and how to split your program into functions and modules for easier management. All of these basics are treated with respect to people’s existing understanding and skills in Perl programming and how they can be leveraged in Python. The last section of the book then looks at specific areas of programming, data manipulation, network communicated, web programming and others to demonstrate to the reader how to make the move from Perl programming to Python programming.
Skills you will learn
- Introduction to Python
- How to Execute Python Programs
- Understanding the objects and statements in Python
- How to migrate your Perl functions to Python
- All about Python Modules, Classes and Object Orientation
- Interfacing with the Operating system
- Data Manipulation
- File manipulation
- Network communication
- Web development
- GUI (Tk) deployment
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Despite initial appearances, Perl and Python are surprisingly similar and this book aims to help ease a programmer's transition between the two languages. Although the emphasis is the `Pythonism' of Perl idioms, the book could also be of use to those programmers who are moving to Perl from a Python background.
Experienced programmers can probably skip the first section, but the discussion of classes, methods and objects is worth reading, particularly if you either aren't used to object orientated programming or are unfamiliar with Perl's OO capabilities.
The third section of the book, Applying Python, is the meat of the book and basically lists a set of Python functions, their Perl equivalents plus a short example in either language. Perl's multitudinous internal variables are also listed with their Python counterparts. The usual subjects are covered: network programming, CGI in Python etc., and there's a short, but useful, section which compares Perl/Tk and TkInter - given the dearth of
printed material on TkInter, GUI programmers will find this interesting.
Given that Perl and Python are, ostensibly, platform-independent languages I would have expected rather better coverage of Python and Perl on non-Unix systems. Apart from this minor niggle, this book represents a useful investment for both Perl and Python programmers.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Very good language cross reference
6 Jan 2002
Format:Paperback
I'm an avid Perl programmer who's wanted to do more with Python, but never seem to have the time to actually _do_ something in Python because I run out of time and end up doing it in Perl. This book has helped me get over that hurdle by providing a useful cross reference, so if you want to do X in Perl (with a perl code example that looks very typical), do Y in Python (with a plausible code fragment).
I would have rated this book 5 stars, as it very clearly achieves its stated goal. Unfortunately it is absolutely riddled with minor typo's. Perhaps that will be fixed in a future edition, but for now it makes life a bit more difficult since you have to pay very close attention to what is in the book vs. what you might already know and correct the book where it is wrong.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Useful book, despite its errors
26 April 2002
Format:Paperback
If you happen to be a Perl Hacker who wants to get into Python, this book is just what you're looking for. It's written from the perspective of a Perl programmer who has made the switch to Python. It introduces Python while explaining the relevant differences to Perl as it goes. There are also lots of code snippets showing Perl code along with its Python equivalents.
This book does have some problems however. It has more typos in it than any other programming book I've ever read. That applies to both the text itself as well as some of the code samples. There are also some places in which it explains things assuming knowledge of something else that isn't described until further on in.
That said, I still found the book useful, and for me it was probably worth the purchase price. I would just recommend that readers be very wary of the typos as you go along.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Was this book even proofread?
3 May 2006
Format:Paperback
This book is a reasonable cross-reference, but it can't be trusted at all, for the simple fact that it has so many typos, spelling mistakes, and code samples with errors in that it's a dangerous book to give to a python learner. Bad show.
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