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[Luke Paireepinart]

Mr. Grimsley,
I hope you don't mind if I forward this reply to the mailing list at large.
I believe that some other people on the list can give you some guidance 
on your transition from FORTRAN to Python,
and make it as enjoyable as possible.
I, however, know nothing of FORTRAN, so I leave it up to other members 
to help you in this regard.
If, in the future, you want to send a private reply, it would behoove 
you to notify the recipient that you'd like your communique to be 
confidential,
because it's generally assumed that all replies should go to everyone, 
because then the largest audience of people who may benefit from your 
discussion are reached.
If you mean to reply to the list, the 'reply-all' button serves this 
purpose quite well, and should be used unless it's necessary to reply 
privately.
Thank you for your time, and I wish you the best of luck.
-Luke

Kent D. Grimsley wrote:
> Mr. Luke;
>
> Thanks for your note in  reply  to my (unreasonable) request.  I am 
> looking forward to being able to chat with someone about my newness to 
> Python. There is so much to absorb and digest.
>
> I must confess to being a long term Fortran programmer ( to the 
> present day) and it might take me a while to adjust to the Python 
> environment..  From what little dabbling in and around the Python 
> site, it milght be that Python is the way I COULD go to solve the 
> genealogical problem at hand.  One obstacle to my perception is being 
> able to transform Fortran I/O to Python---which   will not probably be 
> simple to do.  The existence in Python of   "IF THEN  ELSE type 
> constructions, I think will be very helpful due to the similarity with 
> Fortran.  The actual         code transformation, for example from 
> DIMENSION to whatever the Python statement might be like, at the 
> moment, escapes me,  as an example.
>
> I'm assuming that while the transformation from Fortran might  not be 
> simple, it neveertheless can be done.
>
> Thanks, again,
> Kent Dee Grimsley
> kentdeeg at comcast.net