Python Newbz0r

[King Flevance]

ANyone know of a good place for someone who knows no Python begin to learn it? I am pretty sure I have the Python.exe program. If not, I remember where to get it. I just need a place to go to learn how to use it. I don't have time to search right now but I probably will later. Any additional info you want to throw at me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Denniz]

ANyone know of a good place for someone who knows no Python begin to learn it? I am pretty sure I have the Python.exe program. If not, I remember where to get it. I just need a place to go to learn how to use it. I don't have time to search right now but I probably will later. Any additional info you want to throw at me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

I found Dive into Python to be helpful.

To get python itself, go to http://www.python.org. It also has docs and links to alot of good modules. (You probably want to stick with 2.4 as that is what Civ4 uses.)

Good luck.

 

[Déja]

I would also recommend just starting the IDLE program that comes with the standard windows install of Python, as that provides a windows friendly command prompt where you can simply type in python commands to see what they do:

IDLE 1.1.3      
[COLOR="DarkRed"]>>>[/COLOR] 3 * 4
[COLOR="Blue"]12[/COLOR]
[COLOR="DarkRed"]>>>[/COLOR] [COLOR="Orange"]print[/COLOR] [COLOR="Green"]"check this out"[/COLOR][6:10]
[COLOR="Blue"]this[/COLOR]
[COLOR="DarkRed"]>>>[/COLOR] [COLOR="Orange"]def[/COLOR] [COLOR="Blue"]RunIt[/COLOR]():
	[COLOR="Orange"]print[/COLOR] [COLOR="Green"]"I've been run!"[/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkRed"]>>>[/COLOR] RunIt()
[COLOR="Blue"]I've been run![/COLOR]
[COLOR="DarkRed"]>>>[/COLOR]

 

[Déja]

It's also useful because, unlike the basic command-line python program, it provides syntax highlighting as well as tooltips to help you with function arguments and class/module members.

 

[King Flevance]

Awesome, thanks guys.

Hopefully, I will be rolling around in some python soon.

Thanks again.

 

[Déja]

Having worked with almost a dozen different computer-based languages and having learned five verbal languages, I feel I can safely say that python is among the easiest computer languages to learn. It is much more straight-forward than C/++ and less verbose than C#/VBN/Java. The fact that it's interpreted makes it very easy to debug.

I use it pretty much whenever I have the choice over which language to use