how to go on learning python

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/30/2010 9:37 AM, Xavier Heruacles wrote:
> I'm basically a c/c++ programmer and recently come to python for some
> web development. Using django and javascript I'm afraid I can develop
> some web application now. But often I feel I'm not good at python. I
> don't know much about generators, descriptors and decorators(although I
> can use some of it to accomplish something, but I don't think I'm
> capable of knowing its internals). I find my code ugly, and it seems
> near everything are already gotten done by the libraries. When I want to
> do something, I just find some libraries or modules and then just finish
> the work. So I'm a bit tired of just doing this kind of high level
> scripting, only to find myself a bad programmer. Then my question is
> after one coded some kind of basic app, how one can keep on learning
> programming using python?
> Do some more interesting projects? Read more general books about
> programming? or...?

You can use both your old C skills and new Python skills by helping to 
develop Python by working on issues on the tracker bugs.python.org. If 
you are interested but needed help getting started, ask.

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Terry Jan Reedy