Anyone ever used Python to build a web bot before? Positives/Negatives

Just dabbling a bit in this but I was wonders if Python would be a good language to use in creating a web bot type application?

VB.NET is okay but I'm looking for something a little faster.

Any thoughts?
Thanks

ask macdopus He's another member here with good experience.

So basically, yeah Python is a good way to go for web bots.
That's what I have started with, adapting now my basic C# skills to Python.

Read this thread starting somewhere in the middle, when the conversation changes to another direction: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...6-zennoposter-blogs-group-pay-programmer.html

it depends on what you want.
scrape? python scrapy

bot? python twisted or easy to use mechanize.

hope it helps

I can't guarantee that this is true but I think that SweetFunny (Creator of Scrapebox) codes in Python & highly recommends it (I may be wrong though, jusy from memory!).

I have heard that it is a great language to learn to code bots in. Personally I use VB.Net & PHP. PHP = Great & easy to learn, helps you to create web bots, websites etc & also gives you the ability to run programs directly from your server.

VB.NET (& I am sure Python is the same) , gives you a better interface with faster responses & better memory usage although it will use your own PC so bear that in mind if you have crappy bandwidth or not a great PC or even if you are selling the software!

Depends what you plan on using it for. For me, if it was a program that I would re-use constantly/sell/whatever, then I'd go for something like VB.NET/C#/Java because they have good frameworks to support them. If it was a quick job, like if I had to automate a boring task quickly like scraping something from a site, I'd whip it up in python because of the turn around time.