Learning Python

[Asad Hasan]

Hi All ,

         I have started leaning Python through web . Would like to know if I should follow any book so that basics become clear with examples also want to know like in perl i use to invoke perl -d to get a debugged output is there any option in python.

THanks,

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 25 May 2013 18:11:11 +0530, Asad Hasan wrote:

> I have started leaning Python through web . Would like to know
> if I should follow any book so that basics become clear with examples

Reading books is a good thing to do.

> also
> want to know like in perl i use to invoke perl -d to get a debugged
> output is there any option in python.

Yes. Instead of calling your script like this:

python myscript.py

call it like this:

python -m pdb myscript.py



--
Steven

[Carlos Nepomuceno]

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> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 18:11:11 +0530
> Subject: Learning Python
> From: pytho...@gmail.com
> To: Pytho...@python.org
>
> Hi All ,

>
> I have started leaning Python through web . Would like to know
> if I should follow any book so that basics become clear with examples

> also want to know like in perl i use to invoke perl -d to get a
> debugged output is there any option in python.
>

> THanks,
>
> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

I have used those:

"Dive into Python" (2004)[1]
"Python Programming" (2012)[2]
"Programming Python, 3rd Ed" (2006) [print]
 
[1] http://www.diveintopython.net/
[1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Python_Programming