Hello all,
Goodness, Joel, my head may explode, LOL! I have two computers that I can
tinker on, I already got Python directly from Python.org, do I need to
uninstall it? Will there be that much of a difference between that one and
the one from the MS store?
Thanks for the warm greetings!
Regards,
Nate
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 9:49 PM <mhysnm1964@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you are using windows, install python via the mS store. It will make
your life a lot easier.
*From:* program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *On
Behalf Of *joeldodson@xxxxxxxxx
*Sent:* Friday, 14 January 2022 5:44 PM
*To:* program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [program-l] Re: Just joined the community
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
