Re: [Tutor] learning languages

2018-11-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 22/11/2018 21:45, Avi Gross wrote: [big snip] Please take this up on some other forum as I see nothing here that relates to the purpose of this list, i.e. teaching Python to beginners. TIA. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our

Re: [Tutor] Info on APIs and handling JSON

2018-11-22 Thread Anil Duggirala
thanks a lot Mats, that is what I was thinking. The info on JSON will however be useful to me anyways, thanks a lot, On Fri, Nov 16, 2018, at 6:06 PM, Mats Wichmann wrote: > On 11/16/18 12:31 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > hello, > > > > I have been looking for documentation about how to connect

[Tutor] seniority

2018-11-22 Thread Avi Gross
Steven, Good question. I do not know how long and in what capacity many people have been involved with anything, including Python in some form. I do know a bit about Alan and plenty about myself. I was saying that I would take seriously what was said by people LIKE Alan because they had more

[Tutor] learning languages

2018-11-22 Thread Avi Gross
Steve, I would go a step further. The word "industry" is used by some to mean THEM. I would suggest it is more like US as the younger people of yesteryear age into becoming the employees and even management of the industries involved. When a language like Python has been around long enough so

Re: [Tutor] origins bootstrapped.

2018-11-22 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 22/11/2018 06:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I don't know of any non-free (free as in beer, or free as in speech) > implementations of Python. Can you elaborate? There are several commercial distributions (as opposed to implementations) of Python, that may be what Avi has in mind. Some of