Newbie Help!

[jmdeschamps at gmail.com]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> Stephen <saunders2005 at plusdsl.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >         im new to python i just have a few questions and was wondering if
> > you could help me??
> >
> > 1. what programming langaugue does python use? or which is most popular?
>
> Python _is_ a programming language, so your question is not clear.  If
> you're asking what languages are used to implement Python, that's C (for
> the mainstream version), Java (for Jython), C# (for IronPython), and
> Python itself (for PyPy).
>
> > 2. Does anyone know where i could get hold of practice code
>
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/ -- but much of it may
> be a bit advanced for a beginner.
>
> > 3. Any good ebooks or links to start with. (according to the web this is the
> > best place to start.)
>
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide lists many.
>
> > i know you probally get asked these questions all the time! but im trying to
> > mirgrate for windows to linux.
>
> Python runs on Windows, Linux, Mac (where it comes with the OS, but then
> that's also true of many Linux distros), and elsewhere.
>
>
> Alex

Just so you can grasp what this means (because C++ also has Windows,
Linux and Mac implementation...), the SAME Python source code,
including GUI parts (Tkinter*, in my case) run directly in all of them.


*it's plain jane GUI, it doesn't do Aqua!

jean-marc