Re: Beginner's guide to Python

2013-09-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:14:34 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > ...Python's object model tends to be less well suited to massive > scaling; That's probably true. > I don't know about PyPy and other Pythons, but certainly > CPython isn't designed to run on arbitrary numbers of cores (once you go >

Re: Beginner's guide to Python

2013-09-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Berg wrote: > On 2013.09.04 22:39, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 07:26:47 +0200, Steve Hayes >> declaimed the following: >> >>>Can anyone recommend a web site that gives a good beginner's guide to Python? >>> >>>One that tells one, especial

Re: Beginner's guide to Python

2013-09-04 Thread Andrew Berg
On 2013.09.04 22:39, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 07:26:47 +0200, Steve Hayes > declaimed the following: > >>Can anyone recommend a web site that gives a good beginner's guide to Python? >> >>One that tells one, especially -- >> >>-- what kind of projects Python is good for >

Re: Beginner's guide to Python

2013-09-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-09-04, Steve Hayes wrote: > Can anyone recommend a web site that gives a good beginner's guide to Python? http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ > -- what kind of projects Python is good for Text processing Scientific data analysis and visualization Database stuff CRM Web sites Data

Re: Beginner's guide to Python

2013-09-04 Thread Steve Hayes
On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 14:03:09 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: >On 2013-09-04, Steve Hayes wrote: > >> Can anyone recommend a web site that gives a good beginner's guide to Python? > >http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ > >> -- what kind of projects Python is good for > >Text processing >Sc

Re: Beginner's guide to Python

2013-09-04 Thread prashanth B.G
Hi Steve , These links might be of help . http://swaroopch.com/notes/python/ -- Very well explained for beginners http://www.diveintopython.net/ -- Must read to pick up advanced stuff . This can also be used as a starting point to figure out what python might be used for

Re: Beginner's guide to Python

2013-09-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Steve Hayes wrote: > Can anyone recommend a web site that gives a good beginner's guide to Python? > > One that tells one, especially -- > > -- what kind of projects Python is good for > -- what kind of projects it is not good for > -- a simple explanation of how it