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With the overwhelming response to my earlier Python Is Not Java post, I thought I'd take a little time to be fair and point out that Java Is Not Python, either. While Python is more powerful as a language, Java beats the crap out of it in the area of standards and specifications like JDBC, JNDI, and OSGi, to name just a few.

I was recently looking at the source of a wxPython-based GUI application, about 45.5KLOC in size, not counting the libraries used (e.g. Twisted). The code was written by Java developers who are relatively new to Python, and it suffers from some performance issues (like a 30-second startup time). In examining the code, I found that they had done lots of things that make sense in Java, but which suck terribly in Python. Not because "Python is slower than Java", but because there are easier ways to accomplish the same goals in Python, that wouldn't even be possible in Java.