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| From | Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications |
| Date | 2016-02-18 22:32 +1100 |
| Message-ID | <mailman.246.1455795162.22075.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:11 PM, <wrong.address.1@gmail.com> wrote: > Almost everything points positively for Python. Thanks to all of you who have responded. But please also tell me the disadvantages of Python. If I start using Python, I should be aware of the price I am paying. Speed is not a big problem for me, so an interpreted language is fine. Is packaging/installing very messy? Do I create dozens of files for a simple program calculating the sum of two numbers and product of two numbers in text boxes with one command to be clicked? Can I learn this much in the first couple of hours? > There are a few warts, particularly on Windows, as regards packaging and third-party modules. Anything that's written in pure Python is fairly easy; stuff that's written in C is sometimes a bit hairy. But that's a limitation on the "extended library" of PyPI, not the stuff that comes with Python itself. Your simple example could easily be a single file. Python tends to eschew boilerplate; its motto comes from Baloo - look for the bare necessities of life. For a first couple of hours, I would recommend working at the console or in Idle, rather than creating a GUI; a window takes a bit of extra effort (plus you have choices in how to do that), so just learn the language first. But you could easily advance to building a GUI within your first day of learning Python, if that's the direction you want to go. The biggest disadvantage of Python is that, in a number of ways, it surprises people. Significant whitespace bugs a lot of experienced programmers (and some tools, too), and there are a few other ways that you may find a team of people revile against it. But if you can deal with the social aspects, it's a solid language. ChrisA
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Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications wrong.address.1@gmail.com - 2016-02-17 11:49 -0800
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Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 21:16 +1100
Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications wrong.address.1@gmail.com - 2016-02-18 03:11 -0800
Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 22:32 +1100
Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications wrong.address.1@gmail.com - 2016-02-18 07:49 -0800
Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-19 03:06 +1100
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Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-02-19 11:30 +1100
Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-19 11:57 +1100
Ohnoes significant whitespace (was: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-02-19 12:03 +1100
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