[Python Wpg] Python newbie!

[Mike Pfaiffer]

On April 12, 2006 03:17 pm, Scott Balneaves wrote this amazing epistle:
> Hello to all!
>
> After receiving a gracious invitation from Stuart to join, here I am.
>
> I'm fairly new to Python, having only spent about 3 or 4 months
> semi-activly dabbling with it.  I've got the following books already:

 About the same amount of time I have. I have no books. I just read the 
documentation on the python.org site. The more ask and read the more I find 
out about the language. Since I run a variety of platforms it is easier to 
port source from one machine to another than say... C, Pascal, JAVA. I'll be 
doing quite a bit of that in a couple of months.

> Learning Python         -\
> Python Cookbook           \
> Programming Python         >---  O'Really?
> The Twisted Framework     /
> Python In A Nutshell    -/

 Anything for a "leg up". ;-)

> Python Network Programming (some lesser book company)

 Let me know if you get a newer version. I'd be interested in picking this one 
up from you.

> Learning anything's always an excuse to buy more books, right?

 Naturally.

> My immediate question is the following:
>
> #@+others
> #@+node:imports
>
> I think this is called "decoration", but I've yet to find an
> understandable (to me, anyway) explaination as to what they are.
>
> Help a poor (hopefully ex in a while) C programmer out with a clue?

 Scott... You have my respect for finding things which are very much out of 
the ordinary. You are very much a "geeks geek". I salute you. I can only 
dream of the lofty heights of "nerd-dom" you have achieved. You're pretty 
smart too... ;-) As someone writing their first Python program I'll have to 
defer to Stuart on this one. At the same time I am reminded of compiler 
directives in Turbo Pascal. They were placed within "{}" comments. Would your 
source hint at something similar?

> Scott

 BTW, good presentation last night. I got and installed FUSE as well as sshfs. 
It complained when I ran it (Fedora 2.0). I'll follow up in the MUUG mailing 
list in a couple of days. I want to try a couple more things to get it 
working first (like more reading of the install section a little earlier in 
the day than 1:30am). ;-)

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