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On 2013.09.04 22:39, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 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... 
So is Brainfuck, but I wouldn't say it's good for *any* project...

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