Best Python Tutorial?

[deception]

Heya'll,

Just wondering if anyone has a favourite, easy-to-read tutorial for beginning to learn python? I've scanned the official Doc's but my head hurt :(

Thanks,
deception

[dataw0lf]

Try looking at this. (http://honors.montana.edu/~jjc/easytut/easytut/) Google is your friend ;)
dataw0lf

[deception]

Thanks :) I did use Google but was just seeing what worked for other people, as there was quite a few to choose from :)

[MatthewMetzger]

I've also decided to learn to program in python (and program in general as python will be my first non-markup language). I made the decision largely because of Ubuntu.

Is there a place, forum - website - wiki - whatever, which specifically looks at how python can be used in ubuntu? Beginning scripting tuturials, perhaps.

I know that the people behind ubuntu have a passion for python. It's rubbed off on me and I hope that I can actually learn something useful as a result.

[HungSquirrel]

If you already have experience with at least one object-oriented language, Dive Into Python (http://diveintopython.org/) (included in Warty's default install!) is excellent and free in HTML form.

/usr/share/doc/diveintopython

[protocol]

The best one I've seen and read so far is "How to think like a Computer Scientist: Python Edition". It's fairly simple and an easy read.

[charleyramm]

The little bit of python i've done, i've learned from the tutorials on python.org. They were good enough for me. But then again, im not a very discerning kinda guy. :|

[mrosenlof]

"Learning Python" published by O'Reilly is pretty reasonable. You gotta pay for it though. Your friendly library may have a copy.

Dive into Python, as someone else notes, is pretty good and free.

[mroth]

I'm pretty familiar with programming in Python already, but I'm curious about using it to write Gnome applications. Can anyone recommend a good resource to get started on that?

[EdCrypt]

Maybe this tutorial (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4702) from linux journal can help you with the gnome+python (pygtk) programming.

[Daniel G. Taylor]

I'm pretty familiar with programming in Python already, but I'm curious about using it to write Gnome applications. Can anyone recommend a good resource to get started on that?
Check out pygtk.org (http://pygtk.org). They maintain the GTK+ and GNOME bindings for Python, and have various tutorials and references. There is currently a lot of active development on them, and the latest versions now correspond to the latest GTK+ and GNOME versions (as opposed to the old 2.0 versions from a few months ago).

Make sure you use Glade, too, or you'll spend way too much code just creating the user interface.

[Buffalo Soldier]

Just wondering if anyone has a favourite, easy-to-read tutorial for beginning to learn python? I've scanned the official Doc's but my head hurt :(I'm not sure if it's this page that you're talking about. But this page was a lot of help for me and still is. http://www.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide

[Moobert]

Heya'll,

Just wondering if anyone has a favourite, easy-to-read tutorial for beginning to learn python? I've scanned the official Doc's but my head hurt :(

Thanks,
deception
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Python

this one teaches string methods and other basic stuff well.

[python]

Check out the basic tutorial on python.org. That's where I started.

[Patrick-Ruff]

yeah, those tuturials on python.org should definately be enough. some of them even state that this is based on the assumption that you know nothing about programming, but have basic math skills, etc.

[mordox]

i recently started learning python and the tutorial at python,org helped a lot, although sometimes i had to go back and forth between the library reference and language reference.

@mroth for pygtk u can either create wrapper for your python object as showed here http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-wrap/
or u can use these
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/July2000/article160.shtml
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2000/07/25/gnome_applet.html
http://www.gnome.org/~tvachon/doc/tutorial.html

[pmasiar]

I just started http://LearnPython.pbwiki.com/ - a little wiki with links to python tutorials, data structures and training tasks which should be (I hope) useful for beginners.

[gh0st]

If you already have experience with at least one object-oriented language, Dive Into Python (http://diveintopython.org/) (included in Warty's default install!) is excellent and free in HTML form.

/usr/share/doc/diveintopython

I'm reading Dive Into Python at the moment and it really is excellent if you have some programming knowledge already. It skips all the annoying stuff like "What is a programming language?" :) and just gives you what you need to get started.

It's also available for free in PDF form from the website as well as HTML I just downloaded the PDF. I highly recommend it.

[zabunov9127]

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[jordilin]

I'm reading Dive Into Python at the moment and it really is excellent if you have some programming knowledge already. It skips all the annoying stuff like "What is a programming language?" :) and just gives you what you need to get started.

It's also available for free in PDF form from the website as well as HTML I just downloaded the PDF. I highly recommend it.
Yeah, Dive into python is for those who already have experience in programming. If you are a newbie stay away from this tutorial. Although having programming experience, sometimes I have difficulty in following this tutorial!! The books from Oreilly are great!!, like Programming Python and the Python Cookbook.

[qebab]

For a beginner, byte of python (http://swaroopch.info/text/Byte_of_Python:Main_Page) might be a good place to start as well. If you already have experience with programming, it could be annoying as it starts very basic, though.