| Introduction |
Perl is a general purpose high level language popular for CGI scripts. Some of the popular projects in Perl are CPanel and Bugzilla. It was initially designed to replace complex shell scripts. |
Python is a widely used general-purpose, high level programming language. Due to its rich library and support, it has wide applications in Web Development, Machine Learning, Desktop Applications, etc. |
| Whitespaces |
Perl does not care about whitespaces. |
Python deals with whitespaces and a syntax error generates if whitespaces are not according to Python. |
| Focus |
Perl accentuates support for common tasks such as report generation and file scanning. |
Python accentuates support for common methodologies such as object-oriented programming and data structure design. |
| File Extension |
The .pl file extension is used to save Perl Scripts. For example myDocument.pl |
The .py file extension is used to save Python Scripts. Example: myFile.py |
| End of Statement |
All statements should end with a semi colon in Perl. |
It is not necessary to end the statements with a semi colon in Python as it deals with whitespaces. |
| Comments and Documentation |
For Inline comments, we use # in Perl.
e.g. #Inline-Comment in Perl
whereas for documentation we use
= and =cut
e.g. =Documentation in Perl
starts from here and ends here. =cut
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Python also uses # for Inline comments.
e.g. #Inline-Comment in Python
but for documentation we use
""" i.e. Three inverted commas
e.g. """Documentation in Python
starts from here and ends here."""
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| Statement Blocks |
Perl uses braces to mark the statement blocks. |
Python use indentations to mark the statement blocks. |
| Datatypes |
Some data types contained by Perl are numeric, string, Scalars, Arrays, Hashes. |
Some data types contained by Python are numeric, strings, lists, dictionaries, tuples. |
