Re: New to python, can i ask for a little help? (Andrew Chung)
I gues, it was rather simple... Begin with simple tasks, figure out how to do them. If you are proceding well, then increase difficulty/complexity. Gabor -- Linux: Choice of a GNU Generation -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: New to python, can i ask for a little help?
Thank you to all who responded. You were right about the solution. That helped alot. Now maybe i can ask if anyone has any ideas for learning, such as websites or videos. I found one that i liked alot. http://iamar.net/subpages/PythonVid.html But i wondered how other people learned as beginners in the past? Again, thank you to all of you who responded so quickly to my question. It helped alot. Andrew On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:22 PM, warhammer1...@gmail.com warhammer1...@gmail.com wrote: On May 12, 9:27 pm, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:18 PM, warhammer1...@gmail.com warhammer1...@gmail.com wrote: I loaded python 3.1 I can use the gui and i see the following: Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type copyright, credits or license() for more information. It would seem that this is working correctly and there is no path problem. I am running windows vista. When i put in a test string i see this: Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type copyright, credits or license() for more information. print hello world! SyntaxError: invalid syntax (pyshell#0, line 1) Can anyone tell me what is wrong? I didnt expect that error The print-statement was removed in Python 3.0. Now it's just a function. You'll have to use: print(hello world!) instead. Please also read the 3.0 transition docs: http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html Note that Python 3.0 differs significantly from Python 2.x Cheers, Chris --http://blog.rebertia.com Hi Chris, Thank you for the pointer! that sure helped alot. Do you think i should be using a different version of python? I dont normally do much programming. I used to do some C along time ago. I want to get into something again and python seems to be popular. You should probably use Python v2.6 instead for the time being; most libraries have yet to be ported to Python 3.0, so 2.6 has many more libraries available for it currently. Python 3.0 is also mostly the same as 2.6, so learning 2.6 won't be a waste of time and will help you when the full transition to 3.0 is eventually made. Could you also tell me who uses python in IT areas? I see alot of python and Mysql. And i see python developer jobs as standalone too. See http://www.python.org/about/apps/ and http://www.python.org/about/success/ Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: New to python, can i ask for a little help?
On May 13, 12:18 pm, warhammer1...@gmail.com warhammer1...@gmail.com wrote: I loaded python 3.1 I can use the gui and i see the following: Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type copyright, credits or license() for more information. It would seem that this is working correctly and there is no path problem. I am running windows vista. When i put in a test string i see this: Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type copyright, credits or license() for more information. print hello world! SyntaxError: invalid syntax (pyshell#0, line 1) Can anyone tell me what is wrong? I didnt expect that error Andrew print is a function. So you should do it this way: print(hello world!) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: New to python, can i ask for a little help?
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:22 PM, warhammer1...@gmail.com warhammer1...@gmail.com wrote: On May 12, 9:27 pm, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:18 PM, warhammer1...@gmail.com warhammer1...@gmail.com wrote: I loaded python 3.1 I can use the gui and i see the following: Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type copyright, credits or license() for more information. It would seem that this is working correctly and there is no path problem. I am running windows vista. When i put in a test string i see this: Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type copyright, credits or license() for more information. print hello world! SyntaxError: invalid syntax (pyshell#0, line 1) Can anyone tell me what is wrong? I didnt expect that error The print-statement was removed in Python 3.0. Now it's just a function. You'll have to use: print(hello world!) instead. Please also read the 3.0 transition docs:http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html Note that Python 3.0 differs significantly from Python 2.x Cheers, Chris --http://blog.rebertia.com Hi Chris, Thank you for the pointer! that sure helped alot. Do you think i should be using a different version of python? I dont normally do much programming. I used to do some C along time ago. I want to get into something again and python seems to be popular. You should probably use Python v2.6 instead for the time being; most libraries have yet to be ported to Python 3.0, so 2.6 has many more libraries available for it currently. Python 3.0 is also mostly the same as 2.6, so learning 2.6 won't be a waste of time and will help you when the full transition to 3.0 is eventually made. Could you also tell me who uses python in IT areas? I see alot of python and Mysql. And i see python developer jobs as standalone too. See http://www.python.org/about/apps/ and http://www.python.org/about/success/ Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: New to python, can i ask for a little help?
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:18 AM, warhammer1...@gmail.com warhammer1...@gmail.com wrote: Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type copyright, credits or license() for more information. print hello world! SyntaxError: invalid syntax (pyshell#0, line 1) Can anyone tell me what is wrong? I didnt expect that error Try: print(hello world!) I believe Python 3 requires parenthesis for print. Someone else can explain why perhaps. -sam -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: New to python, can i ask for a little help?
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:18 PM, warhammer1...@gmail.com warhammer1...@gmail.com wrote: I loaded python 3.1 I can use the gui and i see the following: Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type copyright, credits or license() for more information. It would seem that this is working correctly and there is no path problem. I am running windows vista. When i put in a test string i see this: Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type copyright, credits or license() for more information. print hello world! SyntaxError: invalid syntax (pyshell#0, line 1) Can anyone tell me what is wrong? I didnt expect that error The print-statement was removed in Python 3.0. Now it's just a function. You'll have to use: print(hello world!) instead. Please also read the 3.0 transition docs: http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html Note that Python 3.0 differs significantly from Python 2.x Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: New to python, can i ask for a little help?
On May 12, 11:18�pm, warhammer1...@gmail.com warhammer1...@gmail.com wrote: I loaded python 3.1 I can use the gui and i see the following: Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type copyright, credits or license() for more information. It would seem that this is working correctly and there is no path problem. I am running windows vista. When i put in a test string i see this: Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type copyright, credits or license() for more information. print hello world! SyntaxError: invalid syntax (pyshell#0, line 1) Can anyone tell me what is wrong? You're using Python 3.0.1. Print is now a function. I think you would do print(Hello World). Look it up in the documentation. I didnt expect that error And it would have worked in Python 2.x. Andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
