How different are the semantics between Python and JavaScript?

Question

Both these languages seem extremely similar to me. Although Python supports actual classes instead of being prototype-based, in Python classes are not all that different from f

Answer 1

Being a JavaScript developer and done some Python stuff (thanks to Google App Engine) I would say that the two major differences between JavaScript and Python would be

• Formatting. JavaScript doesn't care about the looks of your code (think of all the code minimizers and what the resulting looks like)

• Unicode support. JavaScript is all the way unicode, GAE's Python 2.5 not so much (having Latin 1 as the default character set). So having the need to support non-latin characters can be a real PITA if your'e not sure what you are doing.