Perl to Python Migration - Softcover

Brown, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201734885 ISBN 13: 9780201734881

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

 About the author  Martin C. Brown has been a programmer and systems manager for eleven years for a  variety of organizations, including a university, an ISP, and an advertising agency.  He specializes in making computers easier to use and more accessible to people who  are not computer literate and in integrating different platforms into the same  environment. A full-time author, he spends most of his time writing programming  books, despite spending the bulk of his life trying to avoid getting sucked too far into  the programming world. Martin is the author of eleven other books, including both the Perl and Python Complete Reference titles and Debugging Perl

From the Back Cover

 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

 About the author  Martin C. Brown has been a programmer and systems manager for eleven years for a  variety of organizations, including a university, an ISP, and an advertising agency.  He specializes in making computers easier to use and more accessible to people who  are not computer literate and in integrating different platforms into the same  environment. A full-time author, he spends most of his time writing programming  books, despite spending the bulk of his life trying to avoid getting sucked too far into  the programming world. Martin is the author of eleven other books, including both the Perl and Python Complete Reference titles and Debugging Perl.      

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0201734885
• ISBN 13: 9780201734881
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318