Combining python and perl  Peng Yu pengyu.ut at Sun Aug 23
14:37:24 CEST 2009   According to, it  "Python and Perl come
from a similar background (Unix scripting, which both have long
outgrown), and sport many similar features, but have a different
philosophy. Perl emphasizes support for common application-
oriented tasks, e.g. by having built-in regular expressions,
file scanning and report generating features. Python emphasizes
support for common programming methodologies such as data
structure design and object-oriented programming, and encourages
programmers to write readable (and thus maintainable) code by
providing an elegant but not overly cryptic notation. As a
consequence, Python comes close to Perl but rarely beats it in
its original application domain; however Python has an
applicability well beyond Perl's niche."  My question is that
how to combine both python and perl to take advantages of both
their strong aspects. Of course, I want to primarily use python
---that is why I send this message to th