Re: [ccp4bb]: scripting and python

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I am currently working my way through Lutz, Ascher & Willson, Learning 
Python (Help for Programmers) in the O'Reilly series.  Two others that 
look good and I hope to get to soon are Lutz's Programming Python (2nd 
ed, same publ.) and Ascher & Martelli's Python Cookbook, scheduled for 
publication by O'Reilly this week (although I have not seen it yet).  
LLNL really like python...

Python is said to be a viable alternative to java and perl, though I am 
not in a position to judge this.

There are various converters for c 2 python, etc.  But I have not seen a 
csh converter.

Other shells like ksh and zsh offer more functionality than tcsh.