Perl Programmer's Guide to Python

Those who know me may want to sit down for this. It will come as a shock that I have decided to enter the 21st century and learn Python.

I know, I feel like some kind of traitor. But it's time to face facts: while reports of Perl's death are greatly exaggerated; clearly, the only people writing *new* Perl code are dinosaurs like me.

Anyway, this post is NOT a Perl programmer's guide to Python. It is a question for the Internet if such a guide would be appreciated. I found [one](https://everythingsysadmin.com/perl2python.html) that's OK, but I was hoping for more.

One problem with such a guide is one of Perl's slogans: "[There's more than one way to do it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Philosophy)". I doubt many other Perl programmers use Perl the way I do. I suspect that a real Perl programmer would look at my code and say, "Oh look! A C programmer!" While I might look at code written by a real Perl programmer and say, "Oh look! Line noise!" Anyway, my point is that my Perl Programmer's Guide to Python is likely to be of little help to another Perl programmer.

So anyway, if any of my thousands of readers would be interested in such a guide, let me know.

Update: interesting. I found PerlPhrasebook on the official Python site. I didn't look at it carefully, but I did get a bad first impression. The String Interpolation section does not mention "f-strings" the Python f"bar{foo}" construct, which is clearly the closest analog to Perl's string interpolation. F-strings were introduced 7 years ago (2017), so the PerlPhrasebook has apparently not been updated since then. Acutally, I just checked - it was last updated in 2012. Maybe this suggests that not many people use that document any more? I.e. all Perl programmers who are likely to migrate to Python have already done so? This suggests that maybe writing my own guide is pointless. (Not that pointlessness has ever stopped me from doing something.)