[Tutor] basic Qs [tutorial / text editors / performance characteristics]

[siddharth]

thanks for such quick response   :)

i know Java in detail and currently i am working as 'software engineer'
i do know other langs like c c++ etc.

what will be good starting point for me ?? any suggestions ?

i would also like to know whats the main adv. and disadv. of using lists and
tuples ?? ( tuples are some what confusing me )




----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Yoo" <dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu>
To: "Erik Price" <erikprice@mac.com>
Cc: "siddharth karandikar" <siddharth178@hotmail.com>; <tutor@python.org>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 3-25 AM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] basic Qs [tutorial / text editors / performance
characteristics]


>
>
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Erik Price wrote:
>
> > On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 07:20  AM, siddharth karandikar
> > wrote:
> >
> > > i am new to the world of Python, so i would like to ask some basic
> > > questions ??
> > >
> > > which books OR docs to refere ??
> > > ( i am not new to programming but new to Python )
> >
> > If you already know how to program, perhaps you just need a quick
> > tutorial and a language reference?
>
>
> Hi Siddharth,
>
>
> You may want to try the official Python tutorial at:
>
>     http://python.org/doc/tut/
>
> Since you already have programming experience, I don't have so many qualms
> recommending it for you.  If you have questions, please feel free to bring
> them up on the Tutor list; we're here to help each other learn Python.
>
> By the way, what kind of programming background do you have already?  We
> may be able to point you toward more appropriate material that takes
> better advantage of your experience.
>
>
>
>
> > I think "Python Essential Reference" by David Beazley (sp?) is a decent
> > book, but I don't have my copy on me (it's at work).
> >
> > > which editor / IDE is best for Python ??
> >
> > I use BBEdit on MacOS X at home and jEdit on Windows at work.
>
> There's a list of text editors that integrate themselves well with Python
> on the PythonWiki:
>
>     http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PythonEditors
>
> I personally use Emacs with the 'python-mode' extensions, and it fits
> comfortably for me.  I've also heard very good things about Vim's
> integration with Python.
>
> Let's defuse the holy war fast: A good bet is to use the text editor that
> you're most comfortable with already.  (Unless that's Microsoft Notepad;
> if so, switch to something else, for your own sake.  *grin*).
>
>
>
>
> > > i would also like to know the performance comparison between following
> > > - shell scripts
> > > - perl
> > > - PYTHON
> >
> > "It all depends."
>
> Siddharth, there's a page that's been partitioned off the Documentation
> page on Python.org that provides some comparisons between Python and other
> languages:
>
>     http://python.org/doc/Comparisons.html
>
> But take these with a grain of salt: there's a good reason why they're
> linked up from Python.org.  *grin* There's another site that might
> interest you: Doug Bagley has taken an empirical appraoch, and written a
> pretty comprehensive test suite of programs for many languages:
>
>     http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/
>
>
>
> Please feel free to ask more questions about Python.  Good luck!
>