Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'python,': 0.02; 'tutorial': 0.03; 'syntax': 0.04; 'python)': 0.05; 'sufficient': 0.05; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'steve': 0.09; 'explanation': 0.09; 'imported': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'fine;': 0.16; 'hayes': 0.16; 'message-id:@4ax.com': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wed,': 0.18; 'trying': 0.19; 'packages.': 0.19; 'manual': 0.22; 'python?': 0.22; 'installation': 0.23; 'compilation': 0.24; 'instead.': 0.24; 'tells': 0.24; 'url:home': 0.24; 'compiled': 0.26; 'second': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints- To:1': 0.27; 'especially': 0.30; 'gives': 0.31; 'included': 0.31; 'overhead': 0.31; 'pascal': 0.31; 'sep': 0.31; 'anyone': 0.31; 'file': 0.32; 'probably': 0.32; 'run': 0.32; 'maybe': 0.34; 'common': 0.35; 'one,': 0.35; 'google': 0.35; '+0200,': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'received:76': 0.38; 'connections': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'anything': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'most': 0.60; 'simple': 0.61; 'first': 0.61; 'kind': 0.63; 'subject:guide': 0.84; 'thereafter': 0.93; '2013': 0.98 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Beginner's guide to Python Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 23:39:14 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-76-249-18-180.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 36 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1378352366 news.xs4all.nl 15920 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:37038 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:53666 On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 07:26:47 +0200, Steve Hayes 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/