concur 100%. You can breeze through the fist half of the online tutorial in a about 2 cups of coffee but you don't know what you don't know until you try to do something real.
Even with 20 years of working with Python, I find goodies in the cookbook for each new project. Get a python aware editor. I use Eclipse+PyDev for big jobs, but still use Emacs with python-mode for quickies. Although I would never recommend Emacs to someone who does not already know how to use it. IDLE is ok, for beginning but I find it distracting. Eclipse can be intimidating at first, but if you go through the PyDev howto's, You'll learn all you need. Forget about typing stuff interactively, It is better to work in a file so you can see your work evolve. Finally, I have never had a project in the last 5 years that someone hasn't already done. Google is your friend. Many of the hits are misleading or too much code to fit what I need, but I often find a snippet that I can use. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of BartlebyScrivener > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:18 AM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: Evolution of a pythonistas! > > > On Jun 28, 6:46 am, swordofrue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > How does a pythonistas evolve? > > > > Get the Python Cookbook 2d, pick a useful looking project, and adapt > it for your own needs. Learn by doing. Some people enjoy just doing > the tutorials with the interpreter open, testing code line by line. > That works, too. But often the most gratifying is to solve a problem, > or make a useful script that does something you need, which saves you > time--time you can invest in learning more Python. :) > > rd > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
