Newbe: password program

[andy]

pavs,

I've been using Python for about 2 years, and I don't feel I'v done more than 
scratch the surface yet!  I don't mean it's heavy-going, I just mean that 
there's such depth to it, and people are so actively using it in such 
interesting ways.  I wish I'd bothered to look up this mailing list long 
before, because there are so many sharp minds to learn from here (even if 
they don't always agree on *how* to do things, or even *why* !).  The best 
thing is that there *are* so many people willing to give guidance and 
opinions so freely.

As far as I know, you can interface just about any language to Python, but the 
'native' compiled language behind it all seems to be predominantly C/C++.

You can do assembly interfaces in C/C++ easilty, so by extrapolation, you can 
therefore extend Python with assembly.  Not sure if that is neccesarily a 
good idea, though (but I'm sure plenty of people will be willing to let you 
know their opinions!).

Reading material I've found useful (all online):
	Guido's Tutorial
		Once you get over the sort-of meandering style it's a good starting place.

	The Module Index Docs
		Lots of examples in there, enough to get you going most times.

	The Language Reference
		For when you want to know *why* and *how* some part of the language works.

	Google search
		Just tap in "python doobery" and you'll get loads of, mostly useful, refs.

	python.faqts - http://python.faqts.com
		Loads of stuff woth looking at

	zone.fbot - http://effbot.org/zone
		Loads more useful stuff.

Hope this is useful (maybe not today, but sometime soon!)

regards, 
-andyj

On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 9:21 pm, pavs wrote:
> Thanks Andy!
> While I haven't gone to the advanced chapters yet, I will save your
> suggestiosn so that I can use it later. I am gradually finishing an online
> python book, where I was asked to write this program as an example.
>
> With the minimum knowledge I had, I chalked it out. :)
>
> Anyways, I am planing to master Python in 4-5 months and than write a chess
> program (hopefully), while I enjoy the experience at the same time.
>
> After reading some online book, I will buy a serious Python book.
>
> By the way, is it possible to use Assembly in Python and connect Python
> program with a DOS program so that I can use it as a DOS (win32)
> executable?
>
> Thanks again for your help!
>
> Cheers,
> pavs