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I am going through Mark Pilgrims Book now. I am liking the book a lot. Some of the examples from the book I'm using don't apply to the most recent version of Python.<div>I would love to find some like minded people. What version of Python would we be going through?</div><div><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 03:33:30 -0500<br>> From: bjonkman@sobac.com<br>> To: kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br>> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Scripting in Linux and unit.d<br>> <br>> Charles McColm and I were recently bitten by the <br>> "We-want-to-be-Python-programmers" bug. On Friday at Ubuntu Hour we met <br>> a fellow from London (ON). Sadly, my memory has lost its parity bits <br>> and I don't recall his name. Maybe "Mars" on the Ubuntu IRC channel? <br>> Anyway, he's a professional Python programmer, and he said he might be <br>> willing to come back to guide some of us newbies towards a life of <br>> Pythony goodness. He suggested we start with Mark Pilgrim's "Dive Into <br>> Python" or Zed A. Shaw's "Learn Python The Hard Way".<br>> <br>> Is there interest in learning Python within the ranks of KWLUG? All we <br>> need is a project to work on... The KWPUG group seems to be defunct, <br>> but we can strike out on our own.<br>> <br>> --Bob.<br>> <br>> Dive Into Python http://www.diveintopython.net/<br>> Learn Python The Hard Way http://learnpythonthehardway.org/<br>> KWPUG http://kwpug.org<br>> Ubuntu Canada IRC channel irc://irc.freenode.net/#ubuntu-ca or <br>> http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-ca<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> John Van Ostrand <john@netdirect.ca> wrote:<br>> <br>> Hi Colon,<br>> <br>> Scripting in Linux relies heavily on the vast array of programs<br>> either directly or indirectly.<br>> <br>> Bash is the command shell and is commonly used for scripting,<br>> especially in system start up. It uses external programs heavily. I<br>> usually start with bash and if it proves poor for the task I move to<br>> perl by massaging the script.<br>> <br>> Perl is a very flexible and powerful scripting language and it<br>> borrows a lot of syntax from bash, awk and grep. So learning bash<br>> helps with perl. It works well for parsing text files.<br>> <br>> Python seems to be one of the more recently popular scripting. With<br>> add-ons it's used for Fedora admin Gui programs. It also handles<br>> threading well and has lots of other add-on modules.<br>> <br>> There are lots of other options but these are the common workhorse<br>> apps for system-level scripting.<br>> Bash and the common linux commands are worth getting familiar with.<br>> Regular expressions are also commonly handy. These are the basics<br>> that I findf handy all the time.<br>> <br>> What are you trying to do?<br>> <br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> *From*: kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org<br>> *To*: KWLug Discussion<br>> *Sent*: Sat Jan 07 18:48:02 2012<br>> *Subject*: [kwlug-disc] Scripting in Linux and unit.d<br>> <br>> I'm not a programmer but I do understand some fundamentals and<br>> looking to learn some scripting so that I can automate some tasks.<br>> What would be a good way to learn this stuff.<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> kwlug-disc mailing list<br>> kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br>> http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org<br></div></div> </div></body>
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