Re: [Tutor] Translate this VB.NET code into Python for me?

2008-03-05 Thread Kent Johnson
Alan Gauld wrote: You could do a GUI example and use IronPython to show how it copes with GUI code. Since IP can access the same GUI library as VB.NET they should be very similar in code structure. Here is a blog post I came across recently that shows a number of ways to construct a GUI in

Re: [Tutor] Translate this VB.NET code into Python for me?

2008-03-05 Thread Dick Moores
At 10:22 AM 3/5/2008, Kent Johnson wrote: Alan Gauld wrote: You could do a GUI example and use IronPython to show how it copes with GUI code. Since IP can access the same GUI library as VB.NET they should be very similar in code structure. Here is a blog post I came across recently that

[Tutor] Translate this VB.NET code into Python for me?

2008-03-04 Thread Dick Moores
I thought I'd dip into .NET by downloading the free Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, and start working through _Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition_, by Peter Wright (Apress). By the second chapter I've begun to suspect that GUIs aside, Python is a lot simpler to write.

Re: [Tutor] Translate this VB.NET code into Python for me?

2008-03-04 Thread Jerry Hill
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Dick Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the second chapter I've begun to suspect that GUIs aside, Python is a lot simpler to write. Could someone prove that to me by translating the code I've pasted at http://py77.python.pastebin.com/f24d74b17 (from pp.

Re: [Tutor] Translate this VB.NET code into Python for me?

2008-03-04 Thread Alan Gauld
Dick Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought I'd dip into .NET by downloading the free Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, and start working through _Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition_, by Peter Wright (Apress). By the second chapter I've

Re: [Tutor] Translate this VB.NET code into Python for me?

2008-03-04 Thread Dick Moores
At 07:10 AM 3/4/2008, Jerry Hill wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Dick Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the second chapter I've begun to suspect that GUIs aside, Python is a lot simpler to write. Could someone prove that to me by translating the code I've pasted at

Re: [Tutor] Translate this VB.NET code into Python for me?

2008-03-04 Thread Dick Moores
At 10:05 AM 3/4/2008, Alan Gauld wrote: Dick Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought I'd dip into .NET by downloading the free Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, and start working through _Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition_, by Peter