Re: [Tutor] Beginners Book, Python and PyScripter

2018-12-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 08:44:14AM +, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 04/12/2018 23:52, James Stapleton-Cotton wrote: > > > USERs-MacBook-Pro:~ user$ python hello.py > > python: can't open file 'hello.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory > > You need to provide the full path to the Pytho

Re: [Tutor] Beginners Book, Python and PyScripter

2018-12-05 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 04/12/2018 23:52, James Stapleton-Cotton wrote: > USERs-MacBook-Pro:~ user$ python hello.py > python: can't open file 'hello.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory You need to provide the full path to the Python file. > I previously created a python file called 'hello.py' using the PyCharmE

Re: [Tutor] Beginners Book, Python and PyScripter

2018-12-05 Thread James Stapleton-Cotton
Thank you Adam. I am currently going through the book, 'A Byte of Python' - found here - https://python.swaroopch.com. On pages 29-30 it writes about 'Using A Source File', creating a file called '/tmp/py' on a Mac OS using the 'bash-terminal' and running the saved PyCharm file, 'hello.py'. I type

Re: [Tutor] Beginners Book, Python and PyScripter

2018-12-04 Thread Adam Eyring
I haven't gone through many python books, but have been using a copy of Automating the Boring Stuff with Python. It covers lists, dictionaries, scraping data from websites, etc. https://automatetheboringstuff.com/ The PDF is free. Adam On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 1:09 PM James Stapleton-Cotton wrote:

Re: [Tutor] Beginners Book, Python and PyScripter

2018-12-04 Thread James Stapleton-Cotton
Thank you Mats and Steven. I'm back on track now with a different tutorial which has lead to me to the relevant coding tools. https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers https://python.swaroopch.com On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 4:04 PM Mats Wichmann wrote: > On 12/3/18 3:35 AM, James St

Re: [Tutor] Beginners Book, Python and PyScripter

2018-12-03 Thread Mats Wichmann
On 12/3/18 3:35 AM, James Stapleton-Cotton wrote: > Hello, > > On this page ( > http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english3e/way_of_the_program.html) > - a book for learning Computer Science using Python - I am directed to ( > http://code.google.com/p/pyscripter) in order to access the appr

Re: [Tutor] Beginners Book, Python and PyScripter

2018-12-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Hi James, and welcome. On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 12:35:29PM +0200, James Stapleton-Cotton wrote: [...] > I have downloaded the latest > version of Python from Python.org and PyScripter from a site that I am > directed to from the original site mentioned in the beginning of this email > - (https://so

[Tutor] Beginners Book, Python and PyScripter

2018-12-03 Thread James Stapleton-Cotton
Hello, On this page ( http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english3e/way_of_the_program.html) - a book for learning Computer Science using Python - I am directed to ( http://code.google.com/p/pyscripter) in order to access the appropriate program development environment, PyScripter. I have do