Re: Mastering Python

"Paul McGuire" <ptmcg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Mar 16, 9:27 am, "BartlebyScrivener" <rpdool...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think you should extract that and spend twenty minutes tidying
it up and then publish it to the Python for Programmers page or
make it a downloadable .pdf.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers

I've added it to [the above wiki page], see the last entry.

I missed this the first time around. Thanks for letting us know you'd
done this.

Hope some find it entertaining, if not informative.

It looks like a great get-started guide for the many C++ refugees I
hope we can gain :-)

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