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Re: Beginner's guide to Python

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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
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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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