> I highly recommend wxPython. It's very mature, full-featured, and
> portable, and fairly easy to learn as well.
I am also a Python beginner thinking about what GUI toolkit to use, and
the availability of a free video screencast series on installing and
using wxpython at showmedo.com is making me
I am a programming amateur and a Python newbie who needs to convert
about 100,000,000 strings of the form "1999-12-30" into ordinal dates
for sorting, comparison, and calculations. Though my script does a ton
of heavy calculational lifting (for which numpy and psyco are a
blessing) besides converti
Many thanks for the lucid and helpful suggestions. Since my date range
was only a few years, I used Some Other Guy's suggestion above, which
the forum is saying will be deleted in five days, to make a dictionary
of the whole range of dates when the script starts. It was so fast it
wasn't even worth
> > the reference material. I want to know about list
>> operations such as
> > append.
I've been struggling myself to assemble and learn just the right
combination of quick references. Here is some of what I've found.
For a quick search for the syntax and a simple example of a particular
method
> Have you tried SPE? I don't know how it compares to PyDev but SPE is
> pretty slick. It has several other tools integrated into it,
> including a pretty nice debugger.
After trying Eclipse and SPE, I'm back to using VIM and the Winpdb
debugger, which is the "pretty nice debugger" in SPE, and w
