Kuhlman's tutorials pretty good

[urnerk at qwest.net]

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I like Dave Kuhlman's tutorials as well.  They seem to be in the right place
at the website now:

http://www.python.org/topics/learn/prog.html

However, in looking over 201, I see some scrambling of source code examples,
vs. surrounding text, e.g. when he's getting into regular expressions, some
of the examples have nothing to do with the explanations that follow. 
Notably sections 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5.  2.6 is mostly OK except:

"""
Put together a new string with string concatenation from pieces of the
original string and replacement values. You can use string slices to get
the sub-strings of the original string. In our case, the following gets the
start of the string, adds the first replacement, adds the middle of the
original string, adds the second replacement, and finally, adds the last
part of the original string:

lineDef = delimitedList(fieldDef)
"""

Kirby


Fred Ma wrote:

> I find Dave Kuhlman's tutorials very good, and very complementary
> to the stock tutorial that is part of the python download.  Even
> when they cover the same thing, if it's not that clear in one
> tutorial, reading the other makes it quite clear.   But one can
> swim around the Python website for ages before rummaging into
> Kulhman's tutorials (Python 101 and 201).  I thought it was easy
> to run into a few days ago.  Has the website changed?  Aren't
> Kuhlman's tutorials good enough to sit shoulder-to-shoulder with
> the other links in "Python for Programmers"?  I thought that's
> where it was before.  Granted, it's got a few sections (like
> Using Regular Expressions and Match Objects, 2.3 & 2.4 of 201)
> that need editting, but invaluable nevertheless.  From the point
> of view of someone still waiting for Learning Python to come.
> 
> Fred