[Tutor] newbie programmer

[Alan Gauld]

There is a module in python to help with this
- try the cmd module?

Alan G


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dustin Phillips" <python-tutor@ev1.net>
To: <tutor@python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 6:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] newbie programmer


> I checked out the useless python website and it is great, it has
some really
> interesting challenges that I can practice with.  I am attempting to
take on
> one of these challenges and a question immediately came up.  I am
trying to
> create a dos based menu driven application, but I was wondering what
is the
> most efficient way to implement a menu system?  I started out using
several
> print statements, but I plan on linking the main menu to submenus
and so on
> which will get very cumbersome.  How can I make the menus more
modular?
> Should I save the menu entries into a dictionary?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dustin Phillips" <python-tutor@ev1.net>
> To: "Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld@blueyonder.co.uk>;
<python-tutor@mail.ev1.net>;
> <tutor@python.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 11:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] newbie programmer
>
>
> > Thanks for the insight and suggestions, I will check out the
useless
> python
> > sight right away.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld@blueyonder.co.uk>
> > To: <python-tutor@mail.ev1.net>; <tutor@python.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 5:43 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Tutor] newbie programmer
> >
> >
> > > > just wondering what sort of real world things I can do with
> > > > python?
> > >
> > > Games, Graphics, Scientific numerical simulations, etc.
> > > THere used to even be a web browser written in Python,
> > > there is also a graphics program(like Visio).
> > >
> > > Try searching sourceforge to see what open source projects
> > > are underway using Python.
> > >
> > > With ,more experience you can even join one of the project
> > > teams...
> > >
> > > Oh yes, And the IDLE development tool that comes with
> > > Python is written in Python...
> > >
> > > > anyone have any advice or suggestions?
> > >
> > > For some fun small projects check out the "Useless Python"
> > > website, which is far from useless...
> > >
> > > Alan G
> > > Author of the Learn to Program web tutor
> > > http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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