On 16/02/06, John Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My 1st dumb question: I have a copy of Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours, > printed in 2000 so I guess it's virtually usless but i was hoping to learn > some of the basics from it. There is a small bit of code near the > beginning...
Check out the tutorial on the website at http://python.org/. Although you might find some concepts have changed a bit since the basic days.. I've also heard that Alan Gauld's tutorial is pretty good: http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/ Plus, the author is pretty responsive :-) > print "Hello, World!" > > print ' 'Goodbye, World!" > > which returns a syntax error for the 2nd line. I thought it was a typo and > changed it to print "Goodbye, World!". Err, yeah. That's a bit odd. Strings in python are delimited either by single quotes or double quotes, but you can't mix and match. So, you could do this: print 'Hello world!' or this: print "Hello world!" but you can't replace a double quote with two single quotes. -- John. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
