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| From | Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Beginner's guide to Python |
| Date | 2013-09-04 23:39 -0400 |
| Organization | IISS Elusive Unicorn |
| References | <krgd29147rkd24eud341jrm5uc1lh5ojr3@4ax.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.69.1378352366.5461.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 07:26:47 +0200, Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net>
declaimed the following:
>Can anyone recommend a web site that gives a good beginner's guide to Python?
>
>One that tells one, especially --
>
>-- what kind of projects Python is good for
So far as I know, Python is "Turing-complete" -- it can be used for
anything...
>-- what kind of projects it is not good for
... anything that the implementation is not sufficient to support (a
web-server with few connections per second is probably fine; trying to run
Google search in pure Python, maybe not -- though lots of Google may use
Python)
>-- a simple explanation of how it works
Python is a byte-code compiled/interpreted language in the most common
implementation -- without the overhead of having to first run the
compilation phase (a la Pascal P-code or Java); imported modules are
compiled the first time they are imported, thereafter the compiled file is
imported instead.
>-- a kind of beginner's tutotial and guide to its syntax
>
Uhm... The Python Tutorial and Language Reference Manual -- included as
part of most all installation packages.
--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
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Beginner's guide to Python Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2013-09-04 07:26 +0200
Re: Beginner's guide to Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-04 17:10 +1000
Re: Beginner's guide to Python "prashanth B.G" <prash.bg@gmail.com> - 2013-09-04 11:49 +0530
Re: Beginner's guide to Python Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-09-04 14:03 +0000
Re: Beginner's guide to Python Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2013-09-04 18:09 +0200
Re: Beginner's guide to Python Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-09-04 23:39 -0400
Re: Beginner's guide to Python Andrew Berg <robotsondrugs@gmail.com> - 2013-09-04 23:03 -0500
Re: Beginner's guide to Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-05 14:14 +1000
Re: Beginner's guide to Python Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-05 07:27 +0000
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