On 1/24/2015 6:53 PM, Christopher J. Pisz wrote:
I am trying to help a buddy out. I am a C++ on Windows guy. This buddy
of mine is learning Python at work on a Mac. I figured I could
contribute with non language specific questions and such.
When learning any new language, I said, the first step would be a Hello
World program. Let's see if we can get that to work.
So my buddy creates opens the IDE they gave at the workplace, creates a
new project, adds a demo.py file, writes one line : print "Hello World",
hits Run in the IDE and indeed the display is shown at the bottom when
it executes.
I say the next step would be to get that to run on the command line. So
(keep in mind I know nothing about macs) my buddy opens a "zsh?" window,
cd to the directory, and I say the command i most likely: python demo.py
It looks like it executes but there is no output to the command line
window.
It should. In a Windows console, using 3.4:
C:\Programs\Python34>type tem.py # cat on Mac?
print('Hello World!')
C:\Programs\Python34>python tem.py
Hello World!
> Can anyone explain why there is no output?
Without a copy of the file and command, as above, no.
> Can anyone recommend a good walkthrough of getting set up and doing
basics?
Since you used 2.x print syntax: https://docs.python.org/2.7/
"Python Setup and Usage
how to use Python on different platforms"
"Tutorial
start here"
> I'll probably end up learning python myself, just to help out.
You might possibly enjoy Python as a complement to C++. Some people
prototype in Python and rewrite time critical functions in C++. One can
access .dlls either directly (via the ctypes module) and write a wrapper
file in C or C++. I believe Python has also been used to write tests
for C++ functions (I know this is true for Python and Java, via Jython).
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