Dustan wrote: > >> What is the best way to get documentation about the functions >> and classes of python? I tried to google, but usually I can just >> find the __doc__ of the objects, without examples or anything that >> can help me use it. > > Refer to this as a reference: > http://docs.python.org/ > I guess I've been there :-)
> It includes a tutorial and documentation on the functions and classes > in all the global modules, as well as builtin functions (http:// > docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html) and syntax. If you have > prior experience with programming, you may be able to learn python > from the tutorial, but otherwise, I would highly recommend you get a > good book for beginners on python > (http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBooks); there's plenty of them > out there. > I do have previous experience with programming (much more than it's reasonable for one lifetime, BTW. I have the curse of never forgetting things I learn, so sometimes I catch myself thinking in archaic and extinct languages), but I found python particularly hard to learn (not as much as Haskell). Maybe I am not doing it the right way, trying to learn Python _and_ Python GUI interface at the same time. For example, yesterday I wanted to open a window, draw some image, and make it move. I tried it with tkinter and with pygame, but I didn't succeed - there was no way I could find how to begin the image in the center of the window (!!!). Such basic things are usually solved with a google search, like "python image position", but there was no inchantation I could utter that would bring me the effect I wanted (oops. Bad example. I guess "python image position" would give a useful answer...) Another example, I found in pygame functions that would return something called an "EventList". But whenever I searched for "EventList" to see what is that, I got back to the page with the functions that returned the EventList :-) Also, basic things like how does "+" operate on object "xxx" are impossible to google search. Anyway, thanks for the help. Alberto Monteiro -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
