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Getting started with Python: Tips, Tools and Resources

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Re: Getting started with Python: Tips, Tools and Resources

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Post by xeper »

Havoc wrote: post #13

Python as a language is great. Its the GUI frameworks that always stop my advances into Python...there are about half a dozen of them and they come in various flavours of broke, ugly, incompatible, difficult or abandoned. So I end up downloading VS C# Express...

As someone who's relatively comfortable with VS ('08-'12) and who has licenses, I'm curious to know what the limitations (if any) are to using VS for development with Python.

Do you (or does anyone) know of any quick-start guides or tutorials to working with Python (or any other non-.NET languages) in Visual Studio?

Re: Getting started with Python: Tips, Tools and Resources

#15

Post by Havoc »

xeper wrote: post #14
Havoc wrote: post #13

Python as a language is great. Its the GUI frameworks that always stop my advances into Python...there are about half a dozen of them and they come in various flavours of broke, ugly, incompatible, difficult or abandoned. So I end up downloading VS C# Express...

As someone who's relatively comfortable with VS ('08-'12) and who has licenses, I'm curious to know what the limitations (if any) are to using VS for development with Python. Do you (or does anyone) know of any quick-start guides or tutorials to working with Python (or any other non-.NET languages) in Visual Studio?

All the code on the internet is C#, so I don't really both with python on VS. I guess its possible, but for learning it strikes me as a bad starting point.

Re: Getting started with Python: Tips, Tools and Resources

#16

Post by Millennium »

mapleoin wrote: post #9
Millennium wrote: post #8

I miss Dive Into Python. It was awesome.

Why are you talking about it in the past tense? http://www.diveintopython.net/toc/index.html http://getpython3.com/diveintopython3/

I know it's been mirrored, but is someone keeping it updated?

Re: Getting started with Python: Tips, Tools and Resources

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Post by irahul »

If you are already a programmer, official tutorial will be the best and fastest http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/

The page list some other domain as official python tutorial: http://homepage.mac.com/s_lott/books/python.html That's not the official python tutorial(it's giving me an access error - no ideas what's hosted there).

Re: Getting started with Python: Tips, Tools and Resources

#18

Post by irahul »

xeper wrote: post #14
Havoc wrote: post #13

Python as a language is great. Its the GUI frameworks that always stop my advances into Python...there are about half a dozen of them and they come in various flavours of broke, ugly, incompatible, difficult or abandoned. So I end up downloading VS C# Express...

As someone who's relatively comfortable with VS ('08-'12) and who has licenses, I'm curious to know what the limitations (if any) are to using VS for development with Python. Do you (or does anyone) know of any quick-start guides or tutorials to working with Python (or any other non-.NET languages) in Visual Studio?

http://pytools.codeplex.com/documentation

Re: Getting started with Python: Tips, Tools and Resources

#19

Post by FlukeATX »

Havoc wrote: post #13

Python as a language is great. Its the GUI frameworks that always stop my advances into Python...there are about half a dozen of them and they come in various flavours of broke, ugly, incompatible, difficult or abandoned. So I end up downloading VS C# Express...

I haven't used it much with Python, but I had a great experience with Qt with C++ and I know Python bindings exist. How much have you looked into it?
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