On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Jeff Bowles wrote: :->If you're just starting out with scripting, I'll give you the analogy that I :->use :->for Perl versus Python: :-> "Python is to Perl as Java is to C++".

I wouldn't go that far - Java was designed to look familiar to C++ authors, fixing some problems. Perl may have influenced the design of Python, but looking familiar to Perl programmers wasn't a goal.

But I'm here to plug my contribution - the Python wrapper for the Client API object. You have to choose Python for your scripting language, but you get to use the ClientAPI interface instead of forking a p4 for everything you want to do. It's in the public depot A bit more information can be found at <URL: http://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/api/index.html >.

<mike