Promoting Python

[Mark Lawrence]

On 06/04/2016 12:06, BartC wrote:
> On 05/04/2016 06:48, Gordon( Hotmail ) wrote:
>> I am struggling to understand the basic principles of Python having
>> spent many years as a pure Amateur tinkering with a variety of BASIC
>
> Last time I looked, there seemed to be around 250 dialects of Basic, and
> with wildly differing implementations from pure interpreters to full
> compilers, from GWBASIC to .NET. (Is there even an official standard?)
>
> With Python there are two dialects, and it's often already installed on
> a system (probably not on Windows though). There are a few different
> implementations too, but code I think is largely compatible across them.
>
>> The problem I am finding is most of the sites claiming to help
>> understand Python devote
>> far too much space bragging about the wonders of Python instead of...

See if you can find one or more here 
http://noeticforce.com/best-free-tutorials-to-learn-python-pdfs-ebooks-online-interactive 
that suits.

>
> I fully agree. But you don't have to use classes, exceptions,
> decorators, generators, iterators, closures, comprehensions, meta
> classes, ... the list of meaningless buzzwords just goes on.

You were five days late.

>
> It'll cope with ordinary coding as well, although such programs seem to
> be frowned upon here; they are not 'Pythonic'.
>

How can you (plural) write Python code when you don't know Python?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence