[ale] Python vs Perl (again)

[Christopher Fowler]

Looks like I'm back into depdency hell :(


[root at cas8]# python 
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
'import exceptions' failed; use -v for traceback
Warning!  Falling back to string-based exceptions
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Jul  5 2001, 03:02:19)  [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2 on linux-i386
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> "asdsa"
'asdsa'
>>> quit
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: quit
>>> 

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 03:06:43PM -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm trying to squeeze perl into a tight space so I can do some
> heavy metal regex stuff when interperting log files.  However,
> I'm in dependency hell right now and can not find a way out.  I
> got perl 5.6.1 on the device and decided I wanted IO::Handle.
> That is when all hell broke loose :)
> 
> My quesiton is that maybe I should go with pyhon?  The executable seems to
> be 400k and maybe a few modules on top of that.  Can I do cgi with 
> python as well as I can with perl.  One option maybe would be php.  But,
> I have to run php as a cgi on my web server.
> 
> Any pointer on this?  Maybe a location I can get the smallest perl
> possible?  42m disti will not cut it on flash.
> 
> Chris
> 
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