Re: Python education survey

2011-12-20 Thread Ashton Fagg
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.

Re: Learning Python 2.4

2011-12-20 Thread Ashton Fagg
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/ K

Re: Learning Python 2.4

2011-12-21 Thread Ashton Fagg
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.

2012-01-02 Thread Ashton Fagg
ant? 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 re