Python Intro part 2

[pgarigue]

Ok I think that the Python intro (the tool part) went OK and it looks like there is some interest.

I want to thank you all for last week. I had a lot of fun. 

What I was thinking of covering next Tuesday is 

-  Built in types http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.5/library/stdtypes.html : numbers, strings, list, tuples dictionary 

- methods to apply on those data type 

- functions and how easy they are 

- importing modules 

- stuff I which someone had told me at the start

-- pretty printing complex data http://docs.python.org/library/pprint.html

-- mutable and immutable data type and very subtle data type  http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html

Come with questions :) 

I getting ready for my vacation to Italy. If there is still interest I can cover more subjects, such as using Python to write out data to file or parse log files, when I come back early November 

good places 

http://docs.python.org/ of course 

http://www.reddit.com/r/pythona very good forum 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python another very good forum 

http://wiki.python.org/moin/ has good list of resources such as tutorial etc.  

Why is Python the way it is?  a video presentation by Guido van Rossum;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugqu10JV7dk

And now some hardware 

http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-and-Python/

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/interfacing/python

http://code.google.com/p/raspberry-gpio-python/

Cheers 

Pierre Garigue