Biased but interesting. Seems to me that there are only two examples of 'strange' here the 'while(<>)' and the regex. Interesting thing about regex---python its

Biased but interesting. Seems to me that there are only two examples of 'strange' here the 'while(<>)' and the regex. Interesting thing about regex---python itself uses perl compatible regex, so throw that item on the trash heap. As for the other its shorthand for grab a file from the command line, open it, Feed each line(\n terminated) to $_(could just as easily been a declared variable, but $_ is always there) and parse it with the regex. While you're at it, throw away the first and second parts, set $_ to the third part and continue. After that get another string from the file. All of this is covered in Wrox's Perl for Beginners as well as else where. I've done reasonable projects in both languages. Don't have anything bad to say about Python--- just wonder what all of the 'have to prove my language is better' crap is coming from...