Non-Errors is anice catalog of things that aren't English usage errors, even though alot of people tend to think that they are. Since I do any number of themI find this reassuring, and it's amusing to see just how old some ofthese perfectly proper usages turn out to be.

(From Daring Fireball .)

My attempts to write a general 'why I like Python' entry to answer arecent comment have floundered completely. However, part of the answeris in the reasons why I like Python more than Perl, and I came up with asummary of that back when I started programming in Python (and still hada copy of it, once I could find it).

The three problems I have with Perl that Python deals with are:

1. an unstructured namespace, which means that any time I want to dosomething I

Document Centric isabout the disconnect between relational databases and regular users, andwhy people keep stuffing data into spreadsheets and the like instead of'real' databases.

(They do. Joel Spolsky has written about the Excel team's surpriseat finding this out about how real users used Excel.)

(From Carlos de la Guardia .)

One of the things I like about the Python interpreter is thatit is just about right for doing little system behavior tests,like how various systems handled a TCP port binding issue . This is because Python islow level enough to be relatively close to the actual system, so you canbe pretty sure that what you're seeing isn't Python-specific behavior,while at the same time being high level enough that you can do the testsin a couple of lines.

Strictly speaking you don't need