Just starting out

[Alex Martelli]

CoReKiLL wrote:

> 
> Hi
> 
> Iam just starting out programming in python and wondering if anyone knows
> a good site for guides etc ? 

Lots of good links at:
http://www.python.org/doc/Newbies.html


> Also is it best just to use python fron a
> command line in linux or is there a gui front end for it ?

Dinosaurs like me tend to be commandline enthusiasts, with variants
such as EMACS (not for me), VIM (yeah, that's my baby) &c.  But
IDLE's quite good, simple, and free -- installs with standard Python,
too, if you have Tcl/Tk already installed on your Linux box (and
Tkinter goes on top of Tcl/Tk and is the basis for IDLE).

Other smart editors such as SciTE (a tiny elegant wrapper on the
Scintilla component that IDLE and others use) have some Python
specific help too.  Then you get into commercial or at least
commercial-if-used-for-gain development environments, such as
Activestate's Komodo, Archaeopteryx's Wing, Secretlabs' Pythonworks,
theKompany's Blackadder, and more.  I've used Blackadder (love the
name -- and the show -- and the help it gives specifically for
PyQT, which I had to pick up in a hurry a short while ago), but
in the end I keep going commandline+readline+rlcompleter and VIM
in support for just about all of my development.  And an occasional
foray into IDLE just to keep in practice.

Your mileage will no doubt vary.


Alex