@Carnival-Boy said in Learning Python from Microsoft: I'm planning on learning Python to help my son who is studying it at school (with a useless teacher). Python 3 is definitely the best option for learning. My kids have had some luck using the learn online free tools out there.

@tim_g said in Python Print() Syntax: @tim_g said in Python Print() Syntax: @scottalanmiller said in Python Print() Syntax: @tim_g said in Python Print() Syntax: @scottalanmiller said in Python Print() Syntax: @tim_g said in Python Print() Syntax: @momurda said in Python Print() Syntax: Say i want to print some stuff to terminal screen name = "matt" dob = "1980" print(name,dob) print(name + " ",dob) Result is the same. Is there a reason Thonny chooses to teach me method 2? Is it just to illustrate concatenation with strings and variables in print function? For comparison, this is how I'd do that same code in PHP: <?php $name = 'tim'; $year = '2018'; echo $name . " " . $year; ?> Well, that's how you'd do it in PHP that is encapsulated inside of HTML. Not really how PHP does it exactly. What's it matter... anything inside of the PHP tags is being parsed by PHP. That's how you do it also in a PHP file with no html. I'm not sure what your point is. PHP is often taught as only existing inside HTML, rather than being its own language. It can be very confusing. The average person using PHP doesn't even realize that you can run PHP scripts. I've been using PHP to output html. Where PHP is understanding html too, rather than the other way. It can do anything really. Most PHP is that way I seen, rather than being inside of an html file. Unless I'm doing it wrong... Nearly all PHP is written to be called by a web server. PHP can do anything, but it's so commonly used as a file on a web server that it is almost exclusively assumed to be what it is being used for.

I am doing the tutorials right now. Im on the simple math one.

@smitherick said in FreePBX extensions to Yealink Phone book can someone who knows python make htis better: Awesome, I wrote our XML remote phonebook by hand with the YeaLink template. This is going to be fun! Follow this post. https://mangolassi.it/topic/15759/use-a-php-file-to-create-a-dynamic-yealink-remote-address-book-of-freepbx-extensions

for direct experience (5 year development of small/medium apps in python) I can say that the qt approach is far superior. I've used briefly gtk2, wxwidgets and I've settled with qt. The signal/slot stuff per se is a winner!

@travisdh1 said in Python versus C for Embedded Development: @scottalanmiller said in Python versus C for Embedded Development: It does... http://playground.arduino.cc/CommonTopics/PyMite Really? Cool! Haven't used it myself. But it is out there and specially designed for this use case. Can call C libraries directly too.

Thanks @scottalanmiller ! What a great resource.

Sold!

Yeah, which isn't very helpful for the issue I've seen (others on the internet have commented on it as well). So you're thinking one of the dependencies is the issue?

@coliver said: Wasn't there a project that ran Python on top of Python? Likely.

Every major coding interview I've done in the past decade has either requested or accepted Python for code.

CodeAcademy's tutorial is pretty good. The interaction is great.

And here is a similar one but this time, both lists remain... months = ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'] newMonths = [] monthlen = len(months) for i in range((monthlen - 1),-1,-1): month = months[i] newMonths.append(month) print(newMonths)

The most common sample of recursion is always doing factorials, of course. So here it is in Python. def main(): num = int(input("Please enter a non-negative integer.\n")) fact = factorial(num) print("The factorial of", num, "is", fact) def factorial(num): if num == 0: return 1 else: return num * factorial(num - 1) main()

I do the same technique when I am working in BASH. It just makes coding cleaner and easier. I find that even for small programs and quick scripts that it is a good habit to get into.

Here is the code for using the above list to make a LinkedList and to insert some test data: myList = linkedList() for x in range(1,10): y = Node(x) myList.insert(y) print(myList.size())

@Alexis Another reason I like single quotes for my strings, less escape confusion

I should also mention that PyCharm 4 is out now too. So if you are using PyCharm, be sure to update.

JetBrains does make the best IDEs. I hope that they do this for all of their IDEs and not just PyCharm.