Hi, Start with the tutorial at https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/
It includes Brief Tour of the Standard Library: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/stdlib.html https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/stdlib2.html Hope that helps. Sri On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Aero Maxx D <aero.max...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm very very new to Python, and trying to learn and I'm struggling with > the import statements. > > I understand they are importing modules that I can then use in my code, > what I'm struggling with though is how do I find out which modules I need > to use to do any given task? > > I do have a programming background in that I know PHP however this is a > scripting language, and one that doesn't require me to import modules or > anything, can easily just look at the functions available on the php.net > website and carry on as normal. > > With Python I'm not finding which modules I need if any as easy as that, > mainly due to the vast number of modules available. > > I'd like to start with something that in my mind is relatively simple in > php, so I thought I'd connect to a MySQL database read what was in a table > and insert some data into the table. > > I've done some googling and read some books, the book mentioned using > import dbm, however I understand this isn't for MySQL but my problem is the > book glosses over the import statement and just says use this, but gives no > explanation as to why I'm using that and/or how to find out that's what I > should use. Googling found some forum posts saying to use MySQLdb. > > I'm wanting to learn Python properly and find things out myself, without > relying on someone to of posted on a blog or a forum who may have done > something similar to what I may be trying to do at that particular time, > and then just blindly follow their example and use the same modules without > an understanding why I'm using those modules, or using modules that I'm > actually not using in the code. > > Sorry for the long email, I didn't initially intend or expect it to be > this long. > > Thanks, > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
