Re: Beginner's questions

2001-08-03 Thread Joel Ricker
> Hi, > I am a Perl programmer but I miss some things in Perl. For this > reason I am looking for another, better (if any) programming > language. Maybe Python would be my choice. Can you please > answer the following Everybody else seems to have answered this pretty well but I just wanted to c

OT: OReilly Conference

2001-07-24 Thread Joel Ricker
Mark, There is supposed to be an open source debate between an advocate at Redhat and one of Microsoft's people. Can't remember the names off hand but do you know of it? When I heard about it, I thought it would be real interesting to see. Any chance of a transcript being available that you kn

Module Directory problem

2001-01-14 Thread Joel Ricker
I'm having a problem making my modules come up. I'm trying to add a custom module to my work and I'm not sure if I'm doing it right. I see something mentioned in the documentation about $PATH or $PYTHONPATH and I'm not sure how to change this. Basically I need to: 1) Set up Activestates IDE to

ActivePython PATH question

2001-01-05 Thread Joel Ricker
I'm just getting started with Python and I just installed it. I'm coming from ActivePerl which added a few things to the PATH when it installed. I thought there should have been some directories added when I installed ActivePython. Was it supposed to? If so could someone tell me what they we