What do Slashdotters use python for?
"Fire & Forget" scripts, ie quickly fixing entries in databases as one offs.
System monitors, checking the computers on our network is ok.
as a calculator;) & as a tool to unencode base64 encoded text. (I want to know that htaccess username & password;)
What are its strengths and its weaknesses?
Quick to code something VERY powerfull, but slow to execute.
Why is it worth learning another programming language?
It's not, you already have leaned python, its just that you don't know you have!
Just being curious and all that.
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Does anyone know the relative speed of Python vs PHP, in a "manipulation of information in databases under high load", type situation?
What do Slashdotters use python for? "Fire & Forget" scripts, ie quickly fixing entries in databases as one offs. System monitors, checking the computers on our network is ok. as a calculator ;) & as a tool to unencode base64 encoded text. (I want to know that htaccess username & password ;)
What are its strengths and its weaknesses?
Quick to code something VERY powerfull, but slow to execute.
Why is it worth learning another programming language?
It's not, you already have leaned python, its just that you don't know you have!
Just being curious and all that.
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