[Discuss] Re: learn Python

[Jason Metz]

You don't say what your programming background is or what type of
application you are trying to put together...

As far as I know, there is no classroom python training available on
Vancouver Island or Vancouver for that matter. Programming Python by Mark
Lutz (O'Reilly, also available through their safari bookshelf) is a witty
and fairly comprehensive tutorial that is written with no prior programming
experience assumed, and all the code examples that I tried worked. The
Python Cookbook will give you a number of recipes for common problems, if
you have something in particular that you are trying to accomplish.

I do not program in python much, I had several projects that used it about a
year ago, but I am not very fluent. It's a nice language, very terse, quick
to code and fairly readable. Most of my development has migrated to Eclipse
over the past couple years, so I use the pyDev plugin, but Komodo is great,
and of course emacs has very nice python support.

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