I envy newbies

[Xenophanes]

Hi,

First try to get your money back for the Unix books you bought. Python
is not an o/s, and unless you are on a system for with the Unix
operating system, you do not need to know it. If you are on a windows
system, Python runs fine, you just have to have the correct version.
Also, there is no relationship at the beginning level with the operating
system as long as the version of Python you have is ported to whatever
o/s you are using on your own pc. At some advanced level, you will be
interfacing with the o/s but for now it does not matter too much.

There are several good tutorials on the Python web site (www.python.org)
you can download. Just click on documentation and you will see it listed
there. The program software for the Python language you downloaded has a
complete suite of documents with it you can read and print out. This
also includes Guido van Rossum's own tutorial which is very good. One
caution about it is that you will need a little background in
programming in order to get the most benefit out of it. There is one
tutorial in particular that is good for a quick start for a non
programmer called A Non Programmer's Tutorial for Python. It is at
www.python.org/doc/intros.html, if you are interested.

Since you indicate you are a beginner, I would like to recommend to you
O'Reilly's Learning Python by Mark Lutz and David Ascher for $23.96 plus
shipping from Amazon.com. For a more advanced treatment O'Reilly's
Programming Python is good. Search Amazon for it too. Both of these
books are very good at presenting Python is an understandable way.

bye,

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