In a message dated 8/12/2009 12:42:50 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, p...@ulmcnett.com writes:
jpoorra...@aol.com wrote: > > Thanks, this is great information. > > No offense is intended, as it seems that you know how to program and are > asking smart questions, but I think you'd benefit from going through > some of the python tutorials, because some of the things you are asking > about are basic python, not dabo questions. > See: > http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ > After at least skimming that, you'll be able to gain a firmer > understanding of how dabo relates to python. And it couldn't hurt... > :) > Paul Point taken. Actually, I have gone through the tutorial, and I will go through again. Each time I pick up more. Some of the tutorial is pretty dense! (or perhaps it's me that's dense).* But I'm finding that when you guys explain things, makes more sense. It's easier to learn something in context of getting something to work. We're trying to come up to speed on all these different layers: python->wxpython->dabo, plus mySql as well, layers that were so nicely integrated in VFP. And soon we'll be asking about how to compile into a distributable app, and also how to debug. And I do appreciate the hours you all are putting into this! * here's a passage from the python tutorial: "the special thing about methods is that the object is passed as the first argument of the function. In our example, the call x.f() is exactly equivalent to MyClass.f(x). In general, calling a method with a list of n arguments is equivalent to calling the corresponding function with an argument list that is created by inserting the method’s object before the first argument." I'm pretty sure that this relates to the question of whether methods need to have the "self" passed as first parameter. But Ed's discussion of this in a recent post made more sense! Cheers, Jonathan Poor --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: Dabo-users@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/c39.5c90711f.37b43...@aol.com
