Take a lazy weekend and walk through
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/index.html
All you need is a text editor and a shell. A Python capable text editor
provides some window where you can dump debugging output. Linux users who
are familiar with vim or emacs already found their personal IDE for
Thanks
The need for Python was to recreate text file and word list manipulation
utilities I created at least 4 years ago in C++ and somehow lost
them. I did not want to re-learn C++ since Python was said to be much
easier.
Actually this morning was the first time I ran a script on Ubuntu.
