Re: first book about python

2006-07-12 Thread Ron Rogers Jr.
e Python tutorials: I've got the Python version of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/ And Dive into Python (available online as well as paper): http://diveintopython.org/ Hope this helps. CronoCloud (Ron Rogers Jr.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: help a newbie with a IDE/book combination

2006-07-12 Thread Ron Rogers Jr.
probably a way to do that from within vim or emacs) As some suggested, as a beginner you don't need much of a super powered IDE. If I wasn't using IDLE, I'd be using vim or gvim. CronoCloud (Ron Rogers Jr.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Learning Python

2006-02-06 Thread Ron Rogers Jr.
might not be in your menus though, on my box it's at: python2.4 /usr/local/lib/python2.4/idlelib/idle.py CronoCloud (Ron Rogers Jr.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Needing a WinXP Python variant of a line of code

2006-01-30 Thread Ron Rogers Jr.
gt; path_to_nethack_logfile = os.path.join(root, logs[0]) > exit > Thank you. I guess I should do more reading, since I hadn't read about os.walk yet. I shouldn't even be trying to do what I'm doing so early in my learning. It will eventually be

Re: Needing a WinXP Python variant of a line of code

2006-01-30 Thread Ron Rogers Jr.
Tim Golden wrote: > [Ron Rogers Jr.] > > | I have this line of code that's written with Linux in mind: > | > | path_to_nethack_logfile = os.popen("locate logfile | grep > | nethackdir").read() > | > | and I'm wanting a Windows equivalent, any suggg

Needing a WinXP Python variant of a line of code

2006-01-30 Thread Ron Rogers Jr.
I have this line of code that's written with Linux in mind: path_to_nethack_logfile = os.popen("locate logfile | grep nethackdir").read() and I'm wanting a Windows equivalent, any suestions? Thanks. CronoCloud (Ron Rogers Jr.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: problems with documentation

2006-01-28 Thread Ron Rogers Jr.
e os module. > > rpd > The TOPICS seem to be case sensitve so help> assertion would not work, but help> ASSERTION will. Just figured this out myself, yesterday. CronoCloud (Ron Rogers Jr.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: beta.python.org content

2006-01-28 Thread Ron Rogers Jr.
for a listing of books That sort of thing. The python.org site's been useful to me, pointing me to interesting software, documentation and whatnot. Though I didn't know about IDLE until I saw it mentioned in a post on Slashdot in a story asking for recommendations for Python IDE's. I am "very" new to Python. CronoCloud (Ron Rogers Jr.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list