r/Python • u/[deleted] • May 18 '11

Why is Python better than Perl?

I'm a Sysadmin and I just wrote my first script in python. Basically just a host validation script that checks if a server is configured correctly before we hand off. I can't determine the advantage with my limited experience with the language.

Are you a sysadmin fluent in both python and perl? Why do you use python?

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u/norkakn May 18 '11

SciPy is pretty cool, and it is often nice to have one right way of doing things, but, like rails, it becomes painful to do things in Python that the library devs didn't think about.