Anyone know a python forum ?

Ye' old general discussion board. Basically, for everything that isn't covered elsewhere. Come here to shoot the breeze, shoot your mouth off, or whatever suits your fancy.
This forum is not for asking programming related questions.

Moderator: General Moderators

Post Reply
User avatar
lazy_yogi
Forum Contributor
Posts: 243
Joined: Fri Jan 24, 2003 3:27 am

Anyone know a python forum ?

Post by lazy_yogi »

Does anyone know of a forum that is as active for python as this one is for php/mysql

Also, any good tutorials on GUI programming in python that any has actually used before.

Cheers
User avatar
BDKR
DevNet Resident
Posts: 1207
Joined: Sat Jun 08, 2002 1:24 pm
Location: Florida
Contact:

!

Post by BDKR »

Why you dirty rotten *%#@! How dare you come here and ask a question like that :!:

No, actually, I'm just kidding. :D

Try python.org. There is a ton of links from there that should help you out. Of course, there is also alltheweb and google.

Out of curiousity, why Python?

Cheers,
BDKR
User avatar
lazy_yogi
Forum Contributor
Posts: 243
Joined: Fri Jan 24, 2003 3:27 am

Post by lazy_yogi »

Out of curiousity, why Python?
I'm learning it in one of my subjects for uni.
It really is an amazing language.
I'd say it's as good as perl .. which is a BIG statement.
I'd even go so far as to say it's better than perl for larger scripts because it's more readable and as such is easier to maintain/update/understand.

Very easy to learn too .. took me maybe a few days to get a good grip on it. Now just trying to get my head around GUI development in it .. using pyQT. I'm finding the recomended tutorial (http://www.opendocspublishing.com/pyqt/) incredibly difficult and haven't found another one.
User avatar
llimllib
Moderator
Posts: 466
Joined: Mon Jul 01, 2002 2:19 pm
Location: Baltimore, MD

python resources

Post by llimllib »

OK, I agree with you that Python rocks, although I think it's infinitely better than Perl. I've lately been doing a lot of GUI programming in Python (releasing stuff real soon, I swear!), although it's been in wxPython (which is excellent). As for resources, what you want are the mailing lists and the newsgroup - I haven't been able to find any forums either. I tried, because I prefer them to mailing lists, but you get what you get.

Anyway, look here to search the newsgroup archives, and look here for information on mailing lists. In particular, I see a mailing list called "PyKDE" which deals with the PyQT bindings for python. If you have a non-QT specific question, I might be able to help you.
User avatar
m3mn0n
PHP Evangelist
Posts: 3548
Joined: Tue Aug 13, 2002 3:35 pm
Location: Calgary, Canada

Post by m3mn0n »

I've been wanting to get a good grip on several more languages before i goto uni. Do you got any good python sites where a complete newbie to the language can learn it with simple tutorials?
User avatar
llimllib
Moderator
Posts: 466
Joined: Mon Jul 01, 2002 2:19 pm
Location: Baltimore, MD

Post by llimllib »

it's the first link on the left at python.org. Click here.
Post Reply