Re: Best Free and Open Source Python IDE

If you can take some time and master Vim, you'll be set for typing out any programming language for the rest of your life. I hear Emacs is good too, and the GNU project is great, so you could try that as well. It's supposed to be more geared towards programming -- http://mail.python.org/mail

Regular Expressions

What's the way to go about learning Python's regular expressions? I feel like such an idiot - being so strong in a programming language but knowing nothing about RE. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Hacking in python

The word "hack" can be known as a "smart/quick fix" to a problem. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Regular Expressions

Thanks. O'Reilly is the way I learned Python, and I'm suprised that I didn't think of a book by them earlier. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: can't find a way to display and print pdf through python.

Are you trying to: a) Make the PDF file open in it's default application? b) Create a PDF-reader in Python? ...because your question is somewhat unclear. Report Lab has no PDF viewer. You would need a PDF/PostScript parser to do that and that's more of a job than I think you're looking f