"TFIA Consulting, Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Your site says it should take just a "few days" to learn Python,
Thats true if you are talking about the core language and a few of the most common libraries - sys, re, os, and maybe 1 or 2 more. But thats not iincluding the hundred or so other more specialised libraries, the database and web programming frameworks, a GUI toolkit etc etc. So after a few days you could write a basic Python program. You could probably also tackle a project using one specialised library such as the database API or maybe the CSV module or the socket module. > so I told these folks to give me 12 days in case I > was stupider than average. Thats probably enough to master the core and a chosen selection of modules needed for your project. But... > Here is their documentation on compiling : Pythopn is not naturally a compiled language so immediately you are into non-standard tools and libraries. You ould reasonably charge for any of these: > Building Miro Windows ΒΆ This seems to be the more project specific bit. > The supported Windows port of Miro is based on > Mozilla XUL Again non standard and worse, not even a commonly used library. Bybtheir own admition its not a standard Windows GUI solution because they don't like the windows look n feel - interestingly they don't seem to care that their Windows users probably do! Whatever happened to customer choice? > The XUL port of Miro is by far the most complicated and ugliest. So you can't be expected to learn it for free! > The OS X Cocoa port is simpler, and the GTK/X11 port > is by far the simplest. So two new frameworks on top of the XUL. I'd allow at least a week for any GUI framework (unless you already know the underlying framework - eg Cocoa) And its defintely not core Python. > embedding OS X's quicktime in XUL would be a very large project. So you need QT as well as GUI Cocoa. Thats another fairly big chunk of learning if you don;t already know it. And the Python wrapper on top of that. Again not standard Python and fairly advanced Cocoa. > Miro makes heavy use of Python extensions. The "few days" for Python definitely doesn't include building Python extensions. But this is sometjing that the extra for 12 days might allow to be included. So you might consider giving this for free. MSVC++ 7.1 (2003) compiler Subversion PyRex? Psyco - http://psyco.sourceforge.net/ Py2exe - http://www.py2exe.org Null Soft Installer - http://nsis.sf.net/Download The latest sqlite3.dll file from SQLite The Windows SDK 6.1 (for Vista headers) How much of the above you charge for is up to you. Arguably SVN and MSVC++ and the WinSDK could be expected knowledge from a contractor, but all the rest are definitely beyond the basic language learning for Python. Looks like you need to do some negotiating! -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
