A question from a total newbie

[Timothy Grant]

Lisa wrote:
> 
> Hi ! I am a total newbie to python, although I had a little programming
> experience in Pascal, Fortran and PL/1.

Welcome to the land of Python.
 
> I am thinking of starting on DOS level, without any cumbersome
> layers on windows. Do you recommend that?
 
> If so, where can I get python that runs on DOS?

I would probably start with python and the win32 extensions, both are
available at www.python.org
 
> And what else do I need? What is TCK or whatever it is I saw on
> www.python.org? I am not sure about those things, I hope if someone here
> can give me a pointer or two.

The Windows version of Python ships with Tk.
 
> Books, which are the books for newbies that you recommend? There are so
> many books out there I do not know which ones are good.

Learning Python by Mark Lutz and David Ascher is a really good book, so
is the tutorial that is included with the distribution, in fact, all of
Python's online docs are significantly better than average.
 

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