christian wrote:
I usually mention "import" in the first hour (before methods), and nobody has ever had any problem with that...
Well, same here, but that might change, since the string module is nearly obsolete. You can show reasonably powerful stuff(*) without a single import.
(*) and that's what you need to get people interested.
I usually start out with something web-oriented (which means urllib). how about adding a "get" method to strings? or an "L" prefix character that causes Python to wrap it up in a simple URL container: print url"http://www.python.org".read() ::: but in practice, if you really want people to get interested, make sure you have a domain-specific library installed on the training machines. why care about string fiddling when your second python program (after print "hello world") can be: import noaa im = noaa.open("noaa16_20020620_1021") im.rectify("euro") im.show() </F>