Wow! Got a lot of responses to my post. Thanks everyone. After reading all of them, I may have to learn by example after all. I'm going to try Alan Gauld's tutorials first.
Mark Alan Gauld wrote the following on 2/15/2007 12:39 PM: > "Mark Bystry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >> My goal is to convert about a dozen or so DOS/Windows batch >> scripts(.bat) and vbscripts(.vbs) that I use on a day-to-day basis >> to python > > You might want to look at my Using the OS topic in my tutorial > It covers basic file manipulation and starting external programs > etc. > >> that they can be run on either my windows or linux workstations. > > That might be harder than you think due to differences in paths etc. > Also some external commands will be different, and ones with the > same name take different arguments/orders or args etc > > If you write them in pure Python you should be OK but if you > just run sequences of OS commands (typical of batch files) > then you might run into problems. > >> The first things that I want to learn is how to do basic stuff >> like copying, moving, and deleting files around from folder to >> folder. > > Try my tutor topic. > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor