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rowelld · Jan 15, 2004, 06:40 PM

does anyone here program with python?

Arkham_c · Jan 15, 2004, 09:21 PM

Originally posted by rowelld:
does anyone here program with python?

I worked in python and Zope professionally for over 2 years at my previous job. I love python.

rowelld · Jan 15, 2004, 10:28 PM

do you know any good resources, books, tutorials that i can learn off of? how do you write your own programs on os x?

itai195 · Jan 18, 2004, 02:05 PM

www.python.org

FWIW, it's a highly regarded language but I wasn't a big fan of it when I had to use it.

Arkham_c · Jan 18, 2004, 03:33 PM

Originally posted by rowelld:
do you know any good resources, books, tutorials that i can learn off of? how do you write your own programs on os x?

Learning Python is a good intro to python book.

I write a lot of small python scripts, but they are all run via the terminal. Python is really great for writing quick text processing tools, networking tools, etc.

I know Panther has python bindings for OSX GUI widgets, but I've never used them. Right now I do most of my GUI work on OSX in java or RealBasic, with some Cocoa when needed.

rowelld · Jan 18, 2004, 03:50 PM

what do u use to write python programs on os x? all i've done was type small stuff into the terminal. how and what do u use when u want to write a program and run it individually from the terminal

johnMG · Jan 21, 2004, 10:23 PM

> Learning Python is a good intro to python book.

I just bought that book today. It looks great. The new (2nd) edition just came out -- in fact, there was a review and discussion about it on /.

I've just mostly gotten out of programming (yeah, caught in a layoff) and recently got a high school science teaching job. Not much time left for programming these days, so I thought I'd pick a nice simple, easy(ish), cross-platform language to work with for the little projects that pop up here and there. Python seems to fit the bill.

> what do u use to write python programs on os x?

I'll probably break down and buy a copy of BBedit. Not sure what else is out there. Was using SlickEdit on Linux for a while.

Arkham_c · Jan 21, 2004, 10:39 PM

I use VIM on OSX for simple python scripts, and BBEdit for the bigger stuff. I generally use those tools for Python, Java, PHP, Shell Script, HTML, and whatever else I encounter, so I would recommend BBEdit heartily.

joltguy · Jan 22, 2004, 06:23 AM

FWIW, SubEthaEdit (http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/) has syntax highlighting for Python (and almost every other popular language, including Java) and it's Rendezvous-aware to boot. I love this app... it's damn near perfect!

suthercd · Jan 22, 2004, 08:08 AM

There is a specific OS 9/X python IDE [url=http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython/]here{/url].

I stll use VIM and BBedit, though.

Craig

itai195 · Jan 22, 2004, 01:05 PM

Just wanted to expand on my post. If you have previous programming experience, you may find, as I did, that the tutorials and documentation on python.org are enough to learn the language... you could then spend that book money on a nice dinner this weekend. Python is really a very simple language for whipping up quick, small scripts and programs. If you want to jump into complex Python programming right away then having a more structured introduction to the language, such as what a book can provide, may be more suitable. I also found, when I was learning Python, that the quality of the books available was not very high.

I guess I will openly invite the scorn of Python programmers by saying that, personally, I prefer Perl. Perl may be ugly to look at, but it has a structure to it that Python lacks. Of course, both languages can excel in their own particular domains. Python is certainly the 'in' language to learn these days