Trying to decide between PHP and Python

Tue Jan 4 15:29:44 EST 2011

On 2011年1月04日 12:20:42 -0800, Google Poster wrote:
> About once a year, I have to learn yet another programming language.
> Given all the recommendations (an outstanding accolade from Bruce Eckel,
> author of "Thinking in Java") I have set my aim to Python. Sounds kinda
> cool.
>> The indentation-as-block is unique, but that is how I always indent,
> anyway.
>> Can any of you nice folks post a snippet of how to perform a listing of
> the current directory and save it in a string?
>> Something like this:
>> $ setenv FILES = `ls`
>> Bonus: Let's say that I want to convert the names of the files to
> lowercase? As 'tolower()'
>> TIA,
>> -Ramon

1)
import os
files = ' '.join(os.listdir('/home/dan'))
2)
import os
import string
files = string.lower(' '.join(os.listdir('/home/dan')))
As to choice between Python and PHP, I would say learn anything but PHP. 
Even Perl has fewer tentacles than PHP.