I am new to python. I have a few questions coming from an armature!

[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-08-15, Sickfit92 <pe.fun18 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. How long did it take you guys to master the language or, let me
>    put it this way to completely get the hang and start writing code?

A few hours.  The core language is pretty simple.  [I was already
fluent in a number of other programming languages -- if you haven't
programmed before, it will take longer.]  After 17 years working with
Python, there are still some esoteric features (e.g. decorators) that
I'm not very familiar with, and there will always be libraries to
learn...

> 2. What made you want to learn python? 

I needed an Windows app that could suck email messages from MS-Outlook
via the COM interface and send them to an SMTP server.  I found some
example code showing how to do both transactions using Python (and
Python was free).  Though I had never used Python, I had heard of
Python because it's what RedHat used to write their Linux installer (a
program called Anaconda).

> 3. Was it difficult to learn the language?

Nope, very easy.

> 4. Have you been able to get a job out of your new skill?

Sort of.  Over the past 17 years we've used Python for a number of
projects where I work, and have since then hired somebody specifically
because they had developed Python applications using particulary
libraries.

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