On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 5:00:04 PM UTC+5:30, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 03:59:15 -0700 (PDT) > Rusi Mody wrote: > > Specifically for linux system-level stuff, python will give you > > 80-90% of the C level stuff at ⅕ the pain. > > eg for TCP/IP networking look at > > https://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html > > OK, that sounds reasonable. I am looking at books that I can purchase > online, does anyone know if "Learning Python" from O'Reilly is decent?
Learning python is good for learning python :-) Not for learning linux system calls Not sure of book for TCP/IP (sockets) but if you see this tutorial https://docs.python.org/3/howto/sockets.html you will see that in couple of lines you are actually trying something at the interpreter. C (or C++/Java/C#...) programmers never get the advantage of using an interpreter. Heck you could use a C interpreter; but for some reason this is considered improper -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/38add08d-c570-40d7-9f6d-7c54ac491...@googlegroups.com
