Dustan wrote: > johnny wrote: > > Documentation is not written for newbs, it's written by guys with 6yrs > > of experience FOR guys with 6yrs of experience. > > You might want to get a book on python, rather than depend on the > documentation, which is, as you say, written for more experienced > programmers. > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntroductoryBooks > > I started with a book, and reading the tutorial now, am quite glad I > did. One thing that did bug me, at least briefly, is sometimes beginner > books don't explain what a line of code is actually doing - not > necessarily how it works, but as much information as is necessary to > actually be able to use the code shown.
I didn't complete my thought. If you run into a situation like this, then you might want to look to the python documentation on the web for help; think of the web documentation as a reference manual rather than a tutorial, even though it does provide a tutorial. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
