Path: csiph.com!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: William Ray Wing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:28:38 -0500 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <90cc50d2-1ce5-4588-9bfd-a49d439f00dd@googlegroups.com> <56c66aa9$0$1598$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <8c67cb1c-4318-4d3b-b425-da894e5138e4@googlegroups.com> <56c7bda9$0$1615$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.2 \(3112\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de bm26U7DAw7MoO7DwVOK2DAuAbp0ksRn6jlI9Cb3X4bEw== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.005 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'dynamically': 0.07; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.09; 'subject:Visual': 0.09; 'file,': 0.15; 'subject: \n ': 0.15; '+1.': 0.16; '2016': 0.16; 'discusses': 0.16; 'file).': 0.16; 'received:10.0.1.5': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'to:addr:pearwood.info': 0.16; "to:name:steven d'aprano": 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'received:10.0.1': 0.18; 'language': 0.19; 'library': 0.20; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.20; 'cc:2**1': 0.22; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.22; 'am,': 0.23; 'feb': 0.23; 'sat,': 0.23; 'received:17': 0.27; '(it': 0.29; 'dictionary': 0.29; 'types.': 0.29; 'url:mailman': 0.30; 'table': 0.32; 'bill': 0.32; 'url:python': 0.33; "d'aprano": 0.33; 'doubt': 0.33; 'steven': 0.33; 'surely': 0.33; 'url:listinfo': 0.34; 'received:10.0': 0.34; 'add': 0.34; 'weekend': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'there': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'modules': 0.36; 'pm,': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:10': 0.37; 'pdf': 0.37; 'suggestion': 0.37; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.37; 'manual': 0.38; 'data': 0.39; 'subject:from': 0.39; 'url:mail': 0.40; 'some': 0.40; 'header:MIME-version:1': 0.60; 'linked': 0.63; 'header:In- reply-to:1': 0.84; 'manual,': 0.84; 'ref': 0.84; 'dennis': 0.91 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2016-02-20_01:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 suspectscore=3 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1510270003 definitions=main-1602200052 In-reply-to: <56c7bda9$0$1615$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3112) X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21rc2 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:103234 > On Feb 19, 2016, at 8:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:27 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > >> Then the best suggestion I have would be to take a weekend and just >> read the language reference manual (it used to be about an 80-page PDF >> file, but has no doubt grown into some less handy dynamically linked >> HTML/"help" file). Then add the section of the library reference manual >> that discusses data types. And while in that manual, scan the table of >> contents -- you may find there are modules in the standard library that >> already do what you need. > > Surely you should start with the tutorial, not the reference manual. > > > > -- > Steven > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list Plus +1. The ref manual would be like learning English from a dictionary Bill