any good tutorial 4 a freebee ??

[Terry Hancock]

"François Pinard" <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> :
> [nagpal_uoh at yahoo.com]:
> > i m new to python n quite interested in learning the language . can any
> > of u plz refer a good e-tutorial onm python that has no nonsense stuff
> > n teaches python in a short n simple way ?  i would appreciate ur reply
>
> This is not the ideal way for writing English among our community.  You
> might want to supplement the tutorial with a good grammar and dictionary!

This rebus style of writing is very common among younger newer users.  I've 
heard it comes from AOL chatrooms. It's actually a good sign that some of 
them are migrating towards more serious stuff. But we've got to "housebreak" 
them, too. ;-D

To the OP:
You might want to consider that this is an international forum, I bet 
Francois pronounces "u" more like "oo" than like "yoo", so it's unlikely to 
leap out at him as a rebus for "you".  Much less 
"4"="quatre/yon/cuatro/chiterya/si/..."  and over a hundred other things than 
"four".  When reading a foreign language, even if you are fluent, this stuff 
really gets in the way.   And what if they don't know the word you're using? 
How would you look up "plz" in a dictionary?

It took me ages to figure out the pun in "gcompris".  :-)

Remember, what you write will be read hundreds of times more than written, so 
time saved on reading is worth time spent on writing. This advice will help 
you on usenet, in programming, and in life.  [Terry makes a play for QOTW,  
probably not good enough, though].

I'd give you some links, but I see they've all been recommended to you 
anyway. I personally learned Python from the O'Reilly book "Learning Python", 
which I would highly recommend except for it being a bit out of date now (I 
think there's going to be a new edition), but that's not a freebie, of course.

Cheers,
Terry

--
Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com )
Anansi Spaceworks  http://www.anansispaceworks.com

"Some things are too important to be taken seriously"