> Greetings all, I'm new to python and thought I'd pop in here for advice.
Good decisions both :-) > I've done object oriented design and programmed in perl, java, c++, basic, etc. > ... > I'm curious about good tutorial websites and books to buy. With your background the standard Python tutorial that comes with the documentation should be ideal. Any extra questions just ask here. There are lists of recommended books available in several places. Personally I'd suggest trying the official docs until you know where your interests lie, except.... > ...a prgram to script control another windows program. ...doing anything on Windows you owe it to yourself to buy Mark Hammonds book "Python Programming on Win32"! > The program doesn't have a published API so I'll probably need > to locate memory addresses data fields and button routines. Usually you can drive Windows programs indirectly by posting windows messages to them. Thus sending a mouse click message to a particular control will trigger the event handler etc. You can use a Windows Spy program to moinitor the messages sent in manual processing and replicate them programatically. Its tedious and painful but more reliable than using memory locations! You should download the ActiveState version of Python too - it has several Windows biased goodies on top of the official Python distro... > Am I in way over my head for a Python beginner or does > anybody have any advice for where to start poking around Its ambitious and I'd try a few more simple things first but its not too ridiculous given your C++ background.(Especially if that includes Win32 C++) Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor