On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:38:47PM +0100, Christopher Arndt wrote: >Steve Nelson schrieb: >> I'd like some suggestions for a course outline - bear in mind I'll >> only have a day for the course. The attendees are all sysadmins with >> a UNIX background, and are reasonably comfortable with shell, but >> nothing else. > >Must topics (apart from the basic Python stuff): > >- functions in the os and os.path module >- the subprocess module >- recipe for option parsing with optparse >- recipe for basic logging with the logging module >- file globbing with glob >- walking a directory hierarchy with os.walk >- the re module >- the urllib module > >Maybe: > >- Python modules and packages >- distutils and easy_install (if they have to install third-party packages) > >Since you only have a day this can be only very basic introductions resp. >recipes.
These are good suggestions; two more are python.org and the tutor list! If they get stuck they can fall back on the community - the strength of a language isn't syntax or structure or ease of use, but the core documentation and community around it. -- yours, William _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
