Re: Python changes

2010-10-30 Thread Steve Holden
On 10/28/2010 2:14 PM, Craig McRoberts wrote: > First off, greetings from a newbie! > > Here's the deal. I gained a passable knowledge of Python nearly ten > years ago. Then I decided a career in the computer sciences wasn't > for me, and I let it go. Now I find myself back in the development > ar

Re: Python changes

2010-10-29 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
On Thursday 28 October 2010, 21:23:03 Craig McRoberts wrote: > Oh, I like to browse brick-and-mortar enough. But it's been forever > since I've bought something there. If you can get your hands on a copy of Mark Summerfield's Programming in Python3, check it out. He really raised the accustomed q

Re: Python changes

2010-10-29 Thread rantingrick
On Oct 28, 2:16 pm, Teenan wrote: > hmmm bookstore.. those are the things they had before Amazon right? ;) hmm Amazon... Is that the place where you buy tutorials when you could instead get the same info for free with a little Google fu? ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-li

Re: Python changes

2010-10-29 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:16:45 +0100, Teenan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 15:03 -0400, Craig McRoberts wrote: >> Thanks for the prompt replies. Sounds like it's time to hit a >> bookstore. >> >> Craig McRoberts > > You could do a lot worse than getting 'Dive into Python' (There's even a > nice n

Re: Python changes

2010-10-29 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:14:43 -0400, Craig McRoberts wrote: > First off, greetings from a newbie! > > Here's the deal. I gained a passable knowledge of Python nearly ten > years ago. Then I decided a career in the computer sciences wasn't for > me, and I let it go. Now I find myself back in the de

Re: Python changes

2010-10-28 Thread Stefan Behnel
Teenan, 28.10.2010 21:16: On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 15:03 -0400, Craig McRoberts wrote: Thanks for the prompt replies. Sounds like it's time to hit a bookstore. You could do a lot worse than getting 'Dive into Python' (There's even a nice new version just for python 3.0) Yes, and the thing I lik

Re: Python changes

2010-10-28 Thread Craig McRoberts
Oh, I like to browse brick-and-mortar enough. But it's been forever since I've bought something there. Craig McRoberts On Oct 28, 2010, at 15:16, Teenan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 15:03 -0400, Craig McRoberts wrote: >> Thanks for the prompt replies. Sounds like it's time to hit a bookstore

Re: Python changes

2010-10-28 Thread Teenan
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 15:03 -0400, Craig McRoberts wrote: > Thanks for the prompt replies. Sounds like it's time to hit a bookstore. > > Craig McRoberts You could do a lot worse than getting 'Dive into Python' (There's even a nice new version just for python 3.0) hmmm bookstore.. those are the t

Re: Python changes

2010-10-28 Thread Craig McRoberts
Thanks for the prompt replies. Sounds like it's time to hit a bookstore. Craig McRoberts -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python changes

2010-10-28 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2010-10-28, Craig McRoberts wrote: > First off, greetings from a newbie! > > Here's the deal. I gained a passable knowledge of Python nearly > ten years ago. Then I decided a career in the computer sciences > wasn't for me, and I let it go. Now I find myself back in the > development arena, and

Re: Python changes

2010-10-28 Thread Seebs
On 2010-10-28, Craig McRoberts wrote: >I've already resigned >myself to starting over from the beginning, but are my books from >that time period even worth using now? Impression I get is mostly "no". I think you'll find life overall a lot better now, though. Programming languages tend to impro

Python changes

2010-10-28 Thread Craig McRoberts
First off, greetings from a newbie! Here's the deal. I gained a passable knowledge of Python nearly ten years ago. Then I decided a career in the computer sciences wasn't for me, and I let it go. Now I find myself back in the development arena, and I'd like to pick up Python again. How much has