Python for VB6 programmers (was Re: Complexity of standard Python data structures)

[Steve Holden]

"Aahz" <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote in message
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> In article <slrnb9lsbe.4pa.marcus at infa.abo.fi>,
> Marcus Alanen <marcus at infa.abo.fi> wrote:
> >
> >On the other hand, I've always wished for a document "language X for
> >people know language Y / programming in general / think they know". We
> >could skip all that "let's hold hands while I take you though the
> >mysteries of a dictionary" nonsense, and just concentrate on the issue
> >at hand: how does our knowledge from language X map to this new
> >language? What pitfalls do we have in the language at the moment
> >(e.g. python default arguments are in my humble opinion still
> >counter-intuitive) ?
>
> Right now, I'm trying to get some momentum moving on a book titled
> _Python for VB6 Programmers_.  Anyone interested should subscribe to
> marketing-python.
>
> http://wingide.com/mailman/listinfo/marketing-python

You'd do better to call it "Python for VB programmers", expecially since the
change to VB6 is so radical that migrating to a new and more sensible
language might be an attractive option to some!

regards
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