Various Topics on Python

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Hi,
having been a Perl fan for years I have nearly converted to Python.
Still, there are LOTS and very good modules written in Perl.

Is there a tool to lesson the burdon of translation of Perl to Python?
I am completely aware of the fact that a fully automatic translation
to readable Python source is hard if not impossible.
But such a tool could lots of the tedious work like replacing
braces by proper indentation and and similar things.

Thanks for a pointer (if there is one)

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Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

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Answer: I think they are working on somethig that will allow perl lib usage
in python.
Question: Can someone in the know drop a line?

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"Helmut Jarausch" <jarausch@skynet.be> wrote in message
news:3f182c9a$0$276$ba620e4c@reader0.news.skynet.b e...
> Hi,
> having been a Perl fan for years I have nearly converted to Python.
> Still, there are LOTS and very good modules written in Perl.
>
> Is there a tool to lesson the burdon of translation of Perl to Python?
> I am completely aware of the fact that a fully automatic translation
> to readable Python source is hard if not impossible.
> But such a tool could lots of the tedious work like replacing
> braces by proper indentation and and similar things.
>
> Thanks for a pointer (if there is one)
>
> --
> Helmut Jarausch
>
> Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
> RWTH - Aachen University
> D 52056 Aachen, Germany
>

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"Helmut Jarausch" <jarausch@skynet.be> wrote in message news:3f182c9a$0$276

> having been a Perl fan for years I have nearly converted to Python.

I went the same way, happy with python now and never looked back.

> Still, there are LOTS and very good modules written in Perl.
> Is there a tool to lesson the burdon of translation of Perl to Python?

IMHO language differences leads to different style and I found that
rewriting is better than semi-automatic translation.

I had a project first implemented in perl, than rewrote in python.
Some idioms are completely different, for ex. code blocks in perl are
natural, cl***es are not.
OTOH cl***es are natural in python and no unnamed code blocks exists.
The list may be continued on and on.

Just .02

Mike

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Helmut Jarausch schrieb:

> Is there a tool to lesson the burdon of translation of Perl to Python?

You may try bridgekeeper (http://www.crazy-compilers.com/bridgekeeper/).
But typically it' better to completly rewrite the code since Python
offers different features.

Regards
Hartmut Goebel
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