[AccessD] python - getting started

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Sat May 5 17:37:12 CDT 2007


In addition, I understand that our own Bryan Carbonnell is a bit of
expert... our mail server was built in Python.

Jim 

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Ken Ismert
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 8:11 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] python - getting started


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?
>>     
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