So python?

[Kenderkin17]

Good afternoon admins, security buffs, and all computer loving individuals. Recenly I picked up the TCP/IP survivors guide, and decided it was time that I got into network security, and computer secuirty in general. I have taken it upon myself to start with Python, and was curious of the general feeling toward the language. I know from the breif bit of working with it that I have completed that it can be rather testy. Are there any practical applicatios for the language other than the addressbooks and things that I have been making with it so far? Thank you all for your time.

Kenderkin.

[bascule]

I have taken it upon myself to start with Python, and was curious of the general feeling toward the language.

I hate the indentation based syntax, especially since they will be moving to 2 or 3 space "tabs" only... WTF? Soon 'indent' output will no longer be valid.

I also hate the interpreter, but here's hoping they move to Parrot soon.

Other than that, it's a relatively nice language with lots of nice features. But personally I'd be more incluned to learn Ruby...

Are there any practical applicatios for the language other than the addressbooks and things that I have been making with it so far?

Like Ruby, Python is being used largely in place of things which were previously implemented as Perl scripts. Then there's BitTorrent, which I consider a ridiculous abuse of the language...

[allentrace]

Lisp

Other than that, it's a relatively nice language with lots of nice features. But personally I'd be more incluned to learn Ruby...

Or Lisp

Then there's BitTorrent, which I consider a ridiculous abuse of the language...

Which is why you are developing PDTP. Right?

By the way good talk at Defcon. The tent was a little sparsely populated but it was interesting none the less.

[bascule]

Or Lisp

Check out http://forum.defcon.org/showpost.php...8&postcount=14 yo!

Which is why you are developing PDTP. Right?

Indeed!

By the way good talk at Defcon. The tent was a little sparsely populated but it was interesting none the less.

I probably could've drawn more people by doing a presentation on many of the technologies I touched upon in developing PDTP and ones I considered but didn't use such as BEEP or its proprietary Java counterpart JXTA. Maybe a workshop on implementing network servers would've been more interesting.

[bascule]

Bascule, any idea when there is going to be a official packaged release?

Nope *shrug*