Hi Rob,
thank you for your reply. I am further commenting on your doubts ("I'm
not entirely sure what the point of your exercise is") and on your
proposal of a project for more structured tutorials.About the second item, I fully agree with you. I should be even more drastic: for a certain argument I'd prefer an application fully explained (also if not covering all the features) to a more general tutorial with only brief and unrelated code snippets. Unfortunately, that's not the way things are normally done, because it is much harder to build a useful application and fully comment it (also from the theoretical point of view, like, for example, OO or database management) As far as the 1st item is concerned, I know that Cookbook Python is frequently updated, but for my purposes also a "freezed" situation is OK, and "grepping" is much more useful than "googling" over the web. For that reason I want also add to the repository "my" examples of Python scripts, to build on already known tools. To give an example, the other day I wanted to use "writelines()" to save a list to a file. Having already used such a file method, but not remembering where and when, I was obliged to consult the Library Reference for the sintax and for the type of list instead of merely cutting and pasting from my code... Bye. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
