> Not having a clue about Python or any "real" programming, I've implemented > this in AutoHotKey - any tool snobs just consider what I've pasted below as > pseudocode, in the hope that it might inspire or otherwise help someone.
Anyone who can figure out how to write AHK macros can write python with at _least_ equal facility. Really. I hear echoes from parts of my own journey in what you've been talking about. You are clearly an experienced and accomplished technical person, just not from the same background as most of those in this room. I too am a squarish peg in a roundish hole hereabouts. I am not a programmer, though I've been making small movements, slowly over years, in that general direction. Learning python is truly a joy compared to the hours and hours I've spent labouring over various macros in other tools, including AHK. Though on a days when I just can't understand X I curse it mightily! It's the yearly average I'm talking about. I humbly proffer that what you need is to stumble across a python example of immediate personal utility, solves a real problem you face, that is also self contained and small enough to grasp in at least it's broad strokes, and thereby crack the programming wall asunder. Unfortunately "stumble upon" seems to the operative phrase, at least in my experience. Still, this project has the kind of environment where such happy accidents do in fact happen. :) cheers, -- -matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
