[Tutor] Learning Python

[Fred P]

Hey Everyone,

I am completely new at python, but not new to programming or  
scripting.  I have a couple of years of LUA scripting experience,  
about a year of C++ classes, and used to be very efficient at c-shell  
scripting in unix.

My question for you guys:

1) How do I get Started?

2) Recommend any specific Books?

3) Any online tutors/ forums that would benefit a newbie

4) Any online classes that teach python?  I have taken online c++  
courses, and found them helpful.  I was hoping to find something for  
python.

My main objective is to write scripts for the following type of  
applications
File management, file copies/syncs/ compares
Text manipulation - like parsing text files to replace or augment  
specific values
Integration into current applications to write redundant routines and  
maybe some day plugins

I am not even sure what else, but I do know that every time i think  
of something that we need at work, other people say, "That would be a  
good task for a python script"  and I would eventually like to be  
able to do something about that.

Thanks
Fred



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[Tutor] Newbie to Python

[Fred P]

Hey everyone,

New to python, but not so scripting.  Have some experience with C++,  
but more experience with LUA, CShell, and other types of scripting  
similar to those.

I want to learn Python, and I have decided I would like my first  
project to be a collection program.

I would like to provide the script the path and filename of a file.

Then provide the script with a destination location.

Then the script would create a series of required directories
then copy the contents of the provided folder into the destination  
location + series of required directories

It doesn't seem to terribly difficult, and I think i could get this  
same functionality done in something other than python, but I would  
love to try and start off with something like this.

Alot of what I need python for is automated maintenance and  
manipulation of files.  Would be nice to start off trying to create  
something useful, and I look forward to seeing how active this list is!

Thanks for your time
Fred


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