[program-l] Re: Just joined the community
- From: <joeldodson@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 22:44:16 -0800
Hi Nate,
Welcome to the list. No worries at all about newbie questions, there are many
people here at many levels of experience. Whatever you ask will surely be
appreciated by many others maybe having similar questions. And I think the
more experienced people enjoy helping.
As you start digging into Python, think of the REPL as a close friend. If you
haven’t tried it yet, you can start it by simply typing python at the command
line (assuming you had python added to your path during installation, or have
added it yourself). The REPL is a great place to try quick code snippets.
And the dir function will tell you all the attributes of an object. For
example,
dir(str)
['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__dir__', '__doc__',
'__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__',
'__getnewargs__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__',
'__iter__', '__le
__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__mod__', '__mul__', '__ne__', '__new__',
'__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__rmod__', '__rmul__',
'__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', 'capitalize',
'casefold', 'center', 'coun
t', 'encode', 'endswith', 'expandtabs', 'find', 'format', 'format_map',
'index', 'isalnum', 'isalpha', 'isascii', 'isdecimal', 'isdigit',
'isidentifier', 'islower', 'isnumeric', 'isprintable', 'isspace', 'istitle',
'isupper', 'join', 'lj
ust', 'lower', 'lstrip', 'maketrans', 'partition', 'removeprefix',
'removesuffix', 'replace', 'rfind', 'rindex', 'rjust', 'rpartition', 'rsplit',
'rstrip', 'split', 'splitlines', 'startswith', 'strip', 'swapcase', 'title',
'translate', '
upper', 'zfill']
I do that often when I’m getting my Python and JavaScript object properties
confused. And don’t worry about all those ‘__’ attributes, you’ll learn about
them at some point.
Cheers and looking forward to hearing from you,
Joel
From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
Of Nate Kile
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2022 9:49 PM
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-l] Just joined the community
Hello All,
I just joined the list. I live in Alaska and work in the blindness field at a
training center. I also do some other work with a remote learning organization
for the blind. I am starting to scratch the surface of programming, I have been
watching from the cheap seats for about 3 years now, and feel that it is time
to jump in. I created my new email tonight, went through the stepps to get Word
ress set up through ZAMPP, installed Python and am now ready to strap in, and
take a ride.
I will be lurking around here for a while so I don't ask too many newby
questions, but I am sure that that is, in the end, unavoidable.
You may see this same message pop up on another list as I make my rounds,
joining various communities.
Take care, Nate, AKA, BlueBear1111
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