[Tutor] New to Python

[Max Noel]

On Jan 27, 2005, at 02:09, Jason White wrote:

>
> I'm curious about good tutorial websites and books to buy.

	I learned Python (well, the basics thereof -- enough to do useful 
stuff on my summer job, anyway ^^) in an afternoon using the official 
tutorial that's found somewhere on http://www.python.org/ . It's very 
good provided you already have some programming experience (which seems 
to be your case).
	I hear that Alan Gauld's tutorial is also very good, but geared more 
towards people new to programming. You'll find the address in his sig 
(which itself should be in the post that he sent to the list while I 
was writing this one, if my predictions are accurate :p ).

> I also have a development question for anybody who might know.  The 
> project I'm working on now to develop my python skills is a prgram to 
> script control another windows program.  The program doesn't have a 
> published API so I'll probably need to locate memory addresses data 
> fields and button routines.  Am I in way over my head for a Python 
> beginner or does anybody have any advice for where to start poking 
> around in memory and which python classes I should use to do so?

	Eeh? Peeks and pokes? Are you even allowed to do that? I mean, doesn't 
Windows have a protected memory mechanism, like any OS should have 
nowadays?

-- Max
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"Look at you hacker... A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting 
and sweating as you run through my corridors... How can you challenge a 
perfect, immortal machine?"