Re: Python Programing for the Absoulte Beginner

2014-08-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Bob Martin wrote: > With American English being 2.7 ?? > Sorry, but someone had to ask :-) A fairer comparison would be American English is IronPython, British English is PyPy. Mostly compatible, and people call them both Python, but not strictly identical. Chris

Re: Python Programing for the Absoulte Beginner

2014-08-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 04/08/2014 07:30, Bob Martin wrote: in 726123 20140803 090919 Steven D'Aprano wrote: Steve Hayes wrote: I've got too big an investment in books on Python 2, and there are no books available on Python 3 (I don't regard downloadable PDFs or other onlines stuff as "books"). I love Python 3

Re: Python Programing for the Absoulte Beginner

2014-08-03 Thread Bob Martin
in 726123 20140803 090919 Steven D'Aprano wrote: >Steve Hayes wrote: > >> I've got too big an investment in books on Python 2, and there are no >> books available on Python 3 (I don't regard downloadable PDFs or other >> onlines stuff as "books"). > >I love Python 3, it's way better than Python 2

Re: Python Programing for the Absoulte Beginner

2014-08-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Steve Hayes wrote: > I've got too big an investment in books on Python 2, and there are no > books available on Python 3 (I don't regard downloadable PDFs or other > onlines stuff as "books"). I love Python 3, it's way better than Python 2, and there's less and less reason to stick to Python 2 no

Re: Python Programing for the Absoulte Beginner

2014-08-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Steve Hayes wrote: > On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 15:12:02 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >>On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Steve Hayes wrote: You're looking at a Python 2 book, and you're running Python 3. I would recommend instead getting a Python 3 tutorial: >>>

Re: Python Programing for the Absoulte Beginner

2014-08-02 Thread memilanuk
On 08/02/2014 10:20 PM, Steve Hayes wrote: there are no books available on Python 3 (I don't regard downloadable PDFs > or other onlines stuff as "books"). That's a very broad... and very *wrong* statement. -- Shiny! Let's be bad guys. Reach me @ memilanuk (at) gmail dot com -- https://ma

Re: Python Programing for the Absoulte Beginner

2014-08-02 Thread Steve Hayes
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 15:12:02 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: >On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Steve Hayes wrote: >>>You're looking at a Python 2 book, and you're running Python 3. I >>>would recommend instead getting a Python 3 tutorial: >> >> Or do as I did, and install Python 2. > >Better to insta

Re: Python Programing for the Absoulte Beginner

2014-08-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Steve Hayes wrote: >>You're looking at a Python 2 book, and you're running Python 3. I >>would recommend instead getting a Python 3 tutorial: > > Or do as I did, and install Python 2. Better to install and learn Python 3. Much better. ChrisA -- https://mail.pytho

Re: Python Programing for the Absoulte Beginner

2014-08-02 Thread Steve Hayes
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 08:30:15 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: >On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Seymore4Head > wrote: >> https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww&gws_rd=ssl#hl=en&q=python+programing+for+the+absolute+beginner >> >> There is a book listed as a PDF. >> >> When I try the first example of

Re: Python Programing for the Absoulte Beginner

2014-08-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Seymore4Head wrote: >>If the book is for Python 2 and you have 3.3 it should be print("Game Over") > > Thanks > > I am sure they had a good reason to add using 2 more characters for > doing the same job. One more, since you'll normally have a space after the word "

Re: Python Programing for the Absoulte Beginner

2014-08-02 Thread Seymore4Head
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 08:30:15 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: >On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Seymore4Head > wrote: >> https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww&gws_rd=ssl#hl=en&q=python+programing+for+the+absolute+beginner >> >> There is a book listed as a PDF. >> >> When I try the first example of

Re: Python Programing for the Absoulte Beginner

2014-08-02 Thread Seymore4Head
On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 23:31:35 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: >On 02/08/2014 23:13, Seymore4Head wrote: >> https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww&gws_rd=ssl#hl=en&q=python+programing+for+the+absolute+beginner >> >> There is a book listed as a PDF. >> >> When I try the first example of print "Game O

Re: Python Programing for the Absoulte Beginner

2014-08-02 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 02/08/2014 23:13, Seymore4Head wrote: https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww&gws_rd=ssl#hl=en&q=python+programing+for+the+absolute+beginner There is a book listed as a PDF. When I try the first example of print "Game Over" I get a syntax error. I have tried running the command line and t

Re: Python Programing for the Absoulte Beginner

2014-08-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Seymore4Head wrote: > https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww&gws_rd=ssl#hl=en&q=python+programing+for+the+absolute+beginner > > There is a book listed as a PDF. > > When I try the first example of print "Game Over" I get a syntax > error. > > I have tried running

Python Programing for the Absoulte Beginner

2014-08-02 Thread Seymore4Head
https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww&gws_rd=ssl#hl=en&q=python+programing+for+the+absolute+beginner There is a book listed as a PDF. When I try the first example of print "Game Over" I get a syntax error. I have tried running the command line and the GUI. I get the feeling there is somethi