Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-21 Thread Bill Allen
You have ideas, a text editor, and a computer - best get to coding. What's stopping you? You largely want Python, with modifications. Join the development team and help implement those changes, or fork your own flavor and do what you wish. Right? You imagine it's an easy task, so get after

Re: PyPad 2.7.1 (Update 2)

2011-05-14 Thread Bill Allen
Anyway, I love this little Python app. Been wanting something like this for a long time. I installed this on my iPhone running iOS 4.3.3 (8J2). Congrats on a great app! Bill Allen <http://www.python.org> <http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/hacker-howto.html><http://taarc.rebe

Re: I'm happy with Python 2.5

2011-02-27 Thread Bill Allen
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 07:34, n00m wrote: > Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit > (Intel)] on win32 > > and Idon't move neither up nor down from it (the best & the fastest > version) > -- Trolls should also be h

Re: Which is the best book to learn python

2011-02-14 Thread Bill Allen
Alan Gauld has written a very good online book called Learning to Program. I would definitely recommend it. http://www.alan-g.me.uk/l2p/index.htm -Bill On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:09, santosh hs wrote: > Hi All, > i am beginner to python please tell me which is the best available > referenc

Re: Python on wikipedia

2010-12-12 Thread Bill Allen
Yeah, I noticed that a while back too. Kinda cool. --Bill On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 3:21 PM, DevPlayer wrote: > Snapshot in time, hey look at that; someone used Python as THE example > of what a programming language is on Wikipedia. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language > -- > htt

Re: Python's equivalent to Main calling program and subprograms

2010-12-01 Thread Bill Allen
Thanks for the explanation of "main". Some tutorials mention it, some don't. I have written some not trial Python programs and have never had a real need to use that convention, but at least I understand it now. --Bill On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Tim Harig wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010