The most important modules

[robin at illusionsexeculink.com]

Martyn Quick <mrq at for.mat.bham.ac.uk> wrote:

>I've seen a few comments along the lines of "When you are a newbie it will
>take a while to realize which the important modules are."

These are them for me:
__builtin__ 
string
re
os
sys

Followed by:
time
glob 
traceback 
getopt 
types 

>I notice that as I become aware of
>more of Python's capabilities, I find that previous bits of code can be
>greatly simplified.  Presumably this is a common experience?

I believe so. It depends on how much you are used to the naughty ways
of other languages. <grin>

As an example, try/except/else can simplify an awful lot of manual
bounds checking, and make your code more robust to boot.

> Lutz & Ascher's "Learning Python"

This is *the* book to get when starting out.

>(becoming less of a newbie day-by-day)

As are we all.

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