My first experience… with python
Par jd le jeudi, août 10 2006, 21:50 - Free Software - Lien permanent
Today I decided to start learning Python. I am sick of Perl. I used to be quite good but now I totally lost my power and it's too hard to reuse code I wrote years ago, since I barely understand it.
To begin, I decided to play with Paramiko, a module for using ssh with Python.
Unfortunately, I was unable to simple use from paramiko import * so I was totally disapointed. Fortunately, a python developer working near me helped me to understand why it did not work. And it was actually a bug 
which is now reported as #382348.
I am very amused by falling on a bug with my first line of Python. But be sure I will continue to use it to develop a little tool for my personnal usage. 
I know the pitoon! I know the pitoon!
Commentaires
Damn ! You're now on the dark side of the Force !
By the way, experienced Python programmers suggest that you do not use the 'from module import *' construct. It makes it harder for other people reading the code to understand where each name came from.
You were good at Perl but you're sick of it? You sound like a Ruby programmer
Why Python instead of Ruby, if you were good at Perl? The culture gap is waaay smaller, and you will probably get it quicker.