Ken Ismert
kismert at gmail.com
Sat May 5 10:10:37 CDT 2007
Bruce, One of the quickest ways to jump-start learning a new language is to attend a Meetup group. Right now, there are none in Australia, but there are a number of people interested in most of the major cities. See http://python.meetup.com/about/ If it is feasible for you, and you're interested, starting a Meetup group could be a good way to help yourself and others learn Python. There is nothing like asking questions of real people to get quick, solid starting information. Plus, you can have a few beers while doing it :-) Here are some good web resources: Dive Into Python http://diveintopython.org/ A Byte of Python http://swaroopch.info/text/Byte_of_Python:Main_Page -Ken >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Subject: >> [AccessD] python - getting started >> From: >> Bruce Bruen <bbruen at unwired.com.au> >> Date: >> Sat, 5 May 2007 22:05:56 +1000 >> >> >> hi all, >> someone mentioned python a few minutes ago, ?arthur? >> >> whoever it was, have they got a link for a decent howto or getting started? >> >> I'm looking to port an A2K3 to (ahem) a more "significant" platform. The data >> has already been ported to postgresql and after some hysteria is now ANSI >> compliant. The FE exists in access and has been partially ported to C#, but >> I'm not really happy with the C# implementation. The data abstraction is a >> PITA (waiting hopefully on Charlottes tutorial), the performance is somewhat >> slack from a perception basis (i.e. perceptively slower than access-postgres >> and bordering on infuriatingly slower than access FE/BE architecture) and the >> IDE's are all a royal PITA (VB5, eclipse and #develop), as mentioned >> elsewhere they all want to / support direct data binding. >> >> I have read some (i.e. 1-2%) of the available info on python and it looks >> pretty rich, but is there something between HelloWorld and pyQt? >>