Here's the next batch of questions and answers for the tutor FAQ. If you have any clarifications or corrections, please let me know. I'll try to post this on the web site in a couple of days.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- How do I get data out of HTML? Try Beautiful Soup. http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ Beautiful Soup is more forgiving than other parsers in that it won't choke on bad markup. --------------------------------------------------------------------- What's the best editor/IDE for Python? It's really a matter of preference. There are many features of an editor or IDE such as syntax highlighting, code completion, code folding, buffers, tabs, ... Each editor or IDE has some or all of these features, and you'll have to decide which features are important to you. See http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors for a list of editors. Also http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments has a list of IDEs. --------------------------------------------------------------------- How do I make public and private attributes and methods in my classes? Python followws the philosophy of "we're all adults here" with respect to hiding attributes and methods. i.e. trust the other programmers who will use your classes. You can't really hide variables and methods in Python. You can give clues to other programmers. Python does do name mangling. By putting two underscores before the attribute or method name and not putting two underscores after the name, Python will mangle the name by putting the class name in front of it. For an short example see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_mangling#Name_mangling_in_Python --------------------------------------------------------------------- Why doesn't my regular expression work? Typically, it's an isssue between re.match and re.search. Match matches the beginning only and search checks the entire string. See the regular expression HOWTO for more details. http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- How do I perform matrix operations using Python? The Python FAQ has an entry on how to create multidimensional lists: http://python.org/doc/faq/programming.html#how-do-i-create-a- multidimensional-list You may want to look into the 'numarray' third party module: http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/numarray --------------------------------------------------------------------- How do I make an executable out of my Python program? Although it isn't necessary to turn your Python programs into executables, many people want to be able to put their Python programs on other machines that don't have Python installed. Py2exe makes an executable of your Python program. For Windows only. http://sourceforge.net/projects/py2exe/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
