I'd reccomend to always try to challenge yourself. Don't just program something one way just because it's all you know. Take 20 minutes now and then to learn a new skill even if it breaks old coding habits.
Perhaps a simple anecdote would illustrate this. My first year programming Python I was always building strings as:
str1=var1 + 'greg' + somethingelse + "more chars" + anothervar
However I always saw everyone else doing:
str1="%s greg %s more chars %s" % (var1,somethingelse,anothervar)
But I always figured it wasn't worth learning and my style was just fine! Finally one day I got curious and took the 20 minutes and learned how the formatting operaters work. It's really helped my programming and just made my programs more intuitive. And I find it more attractive to see the whole string almost as it will end up instead of broken up by '+'s everywhere.
I'm sure there are lots of examples of little things like that, that you can pick up here and there.
-Greg
On 12 Oct 2005 18:44:26 -0700, LenS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello
Was wandering if there is any place where some one could go to get
mentoring on python coding. I have started coding in python but I am
the only one in the shop using it. So there is no one around to look
over my code give suggestions on improvement, in style, logic, easier
ways of doing things etc. I am not really looking for hand holding as
much mentoring. I have purchased about every python book out and have
a list a mile long on my internet bookmarks. I believe I have a good
grasp of the fundamentals procedurally and I am fighting my way through
OOP. I am more at the stage of trying to pull things together into
programs that perform real world tasks. At one point I thought I saw
some place on one of the web site that did this kind of thing but I
can't find it now.
Any help or suggestions welcomed
Len Sumnler
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