Ed Singleton wrote: > > I'm a fairly average programmer (better than average compared to my > immediate colleagues). I've read every tutorial I can get my hands > on, but I have no _memory_ of ever coming across the del keyword, let > alone that it is fundamental to Python, and I have no idea what > collections school is. I doubtless have read of it at some point, but > as no importance has ever been attached to it, I have probably not > remembered it. > I'm probably below average as a programmer, except when compared with my immediate colleagues [1]. I wrote an extremely simple (albeit non-conventional) tutorial on learning how to program with Python, partly as a means to learn Python myself. (Google for rur-ple if you are curious.) I introduced del shortly after I introduced lists. I think it is important that one learns at least a couple of example usage of every Python keyword as soon as possible, before attempting to write complicated programs. The same probably goes for built-in functions.
André [1] Because I have none. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
