Re: Python education survey
On 20 December 2011 13:51, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Students may not be experienced with the command-line and may be > running Windows, Linux, or Macs. Ideally, the tool or IDE will be > easy to install and configure (startup directory, path, associated > with a particular version of Python etc). I tutor people (usually fellow students) in programming occasionally, and I've always recommended a simple text editor and a command line (this correlates with most languages, not just Python). My personal set up (using Linux) is vim (with line numbers and syntax highlighting) + shell, no matter which language I'm working with. However for people I'm tutoring, particularly if they're new to programming in general and would find vim intimidating, I recommend gedit (for Linux) or Notepad++ (for Windows), executing/compiling from the command line. As long as the text editor has line numbers and syntax highlighting it's sufficient in my book. I don't like obfuscating what's going on in the background (i.e. interacting with the Python/C/ interpreter/compiler/whatever) with a fancy IDE. However that is my personal (strong) opinion. Hope that helps. -- Ashton Fagg E-mail: ash...@fagg.id.au Web: http://www.fagg.id.au/~ashton/ Keep calm and call Batman. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Learning Python 2.4
On 21 December 2011 10:31, Rick Johnson wrote: > Kimma, don't listen to either of these guys. Anything before Python > 3.0 is now obsolete. We are currently at 3.2.2 for a stable release. > If a tutorial writer is too lazy to update his tutorial to AT LEAST > Python 3.0, THEN he is a fool and should be banished from not only > this community, but from the Internets also. I got the impression the OP was learning programming in general (i.e. from scratch) and not merely "learning Python". If this is the case it shouldn't matter if they're merely learning the concepts as you can always get up to speed on the differences later on as they get more experienced. If they are "learning Python" (i.e. have programmed previously and are learning this as a new language), learning the basics from the book would be fine and it shouldn't be too hard to get up to speed on the newer stuff later on. Although I'd recommend starting on the latest iteration if possible, as it will alleviate some of the leg work of catching up on the newer features. Cheers. -- Ashton Fagg E-mail: ash...@fagg.id.au Web: http://www.fagg.id.au/~ashton/ Keep calm and call Batman. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Learning Python 2.4
On 21 December 2011 20:06, DJC wrote: > > In which case the most important thing is the quality of the book as a > text on Programming. If you find the the author's style to your taste, > then use that book rather than struggle with a text based on a recent > version that you personally find unreadable. This is very good advice. -- Ashton Fagg E-mail: ash...@fagg.id.au Web: http://www.fagg.id.au/~ashton/ Keep calm and call Batman. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Setting an environment variable.
Hi list.
A bit new to Python so please forgive my potential ignorance.
I'm working with an embedded machine, which is using a Python script to
oversee the acquisition of some data. The supervisor script, which is
run by crontab every 5 minutes, relies on an environment variable to be
set. I've tried to set the environment variable inside crontab, however
this doesn't work when the script runs.
Is there a nice way to do this inside the supervisor script itself?
Would an os.system("export foo=/bar/foo/bar") at the very beginning of
the script do what I want? I would just like to check before I make
changes, as being an embedded machine it's a bit of a pain to update
things like this...(read only file system)
Note: This is for Python 2.4. I have no ability to update to anything
newer as this is what our codebase relies upon.
Thanks and regards,
Ashton.
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