newb: Creating Exception

[Dustan]

Dustan wrote:
> johnny wrote:
> > Documentation is not written for newbs, it's written by guys with 6yrs
> > of experience FOR guys with 6yrs of experience.
>
> You might want to get a book on python, rather than depend on the
> documentation, which is, as you say, written for more experienced
> programmers.
>
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntroductoryBooks
>
> I started with a book, and reading the tutorial now, am quite glad I
> did. One thing that did bug me, at least briefly, is sometimes beginner
> books don't explain what a line of code is actually doing - not
> necessarily how it works, but as much information as is necessary to
> actually be able to use the code shown.

I didn't complete my thought. If you run into a situation like this,
then you might want to look to the python documentation on the web for
help; think of the web documentation as a reference manual rather than
a tutorial, even though it does provide a tutorial.