Perl To Python Migration

PERL BACKGROUND

Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall as the Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, a system design to read, extract, process, collate, and summarize information from the logs and other data files. As such, Perl has become known as an excellent general tool for processing data – from the simple collection and formatting of information from text files, to the generation and processing of HTML and web forms.

Originally developed on the Unix platform, Perl borrows much of its abilities from some of the standard Unix tools developed for Unix, including sed, gawk, split, and the Bourne, Korn and C shells. The semantics of the language therefore allow you to take in data, split it up, execute regular expressions, and reconstitute ...