RE: Total newbie question: Best practice

2011-11-30 Thread Shambhu Rajak
Collins Congratulations for your first step into Python Programming. You can call them script or programs(not necessarily but depends on what your coding for). Yaa..it's always a good practice to call it through main(), but it doesn't really matter you can call the method in way Regards,

Re: Total newbie question: Best practice

2011-11-30 Thread Pedro Henrique G. Souto
On 30/11/2011 06:50, Shambhu Rajak wrote: Collins Congratulations for your first step into Python Programming. You can call them script or programs(not necessarily but depends on what your coding for). Yaa..it's always a good practice to call it through main(), but it doesn't really matter you

Re: Total newbie question: Best practice

2011-11-29 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
On 29 November 2011 20:06, Colin Higwell colinh@somewhere.invalid wrote: Hi, Hi Colin, and welcome to Python :) I am just starting to learn Python (I have been at it only a few hours), so please bear with me. I have a few very small scripts (do you call them scripts or programs?) which work

Re: Total newbie question: Best practice

2011-11-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Colin Higwell colinh@somewhere.invalid wrote: However, they are monolithic in nature; i.e. they begin at the beginning and finish at the end. Having done a little reading, I note that it seems to be quite common to have a function main() at the start (which in

Re: Total newbie question: Best practice

2011-11-29 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2011-11-29, Arnaud Delobelle arno...@gmail.com wrote: As for the main() function, I don't think it is standard practice in Python. There is no requirement to have a main() function. You can use the idiom: I don't start off with a main function, but if my script gets long and complicated,

Re: Total newbie question: Best practice

2011-11-29 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/29/2011 03:06 PM, Colin Higwell wrote: Hi, I am just starting to learn Python (I have been at it only a few hours), so please bear with me. I have a few very small scripts (do you call them scripts or programs?) which work properly, and produce the results intended. However, they are

Re: Total newbie question: Best practice

2011-11-29 Thread Colin Higwell
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:57:18 -0500, Dave Angel wrote: On 11/29/2011 03:06 PM, Colin Higwell wrote: Hi, I am just starting to learn Python (I have been at it only a few hours), so please bear with me. I have a few very small scripts (do you call them scripts or programs?) which work