hi i found two pieces of code (unfortunately in python....) and i want to put them in my perl search engine....can anyone help me convert them to perl? the fist code determins the location of a term in a document (the higher the term is in the doc the more relevant is the doc to the term) 
def locationscore(self,rows):
  locations=dict([(row[0],1000000) for row in rows])
  for row in rows:
    loc=sum(row[1:])
    if loc<locations[row[0]]: locations[row[0]]=loc
  return self.normalizescores(locations,smallIsBetter=1)

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the second one has to do with word distance (the closer the terms of a multiple query are to a doc the more relevant the doc is to that query) 
def distancescore(self,rows):
  # If there's only one word, everyone wins!
  if len(rows[0])<=2: return dict([(row[0],1.0) for row in rows])
  # Initialize the dictionary with large values
  mindistance=dict([(row[0],1000000) for row in rows])
  for row in rows:
    dist=sum([abs(row[i]-row[i-1]) for i in range(2,len(row))])
    if dist<mindistance[row[0]]: mindistance[row[0]]=dist
  return self.normalizescores(mindistance,smallIsBetter=1)

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thats all, pls help me ....i know nothing in python and i am a newbie in perl!!! thanks

In reply to term weighting :convert python to perl by alkis

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