So, you've never programmed before. As we go through this tutorial, Iwill attempt to teach you how to program. There really is only oneway to learn to program. You must read code and write code (as computer programs are often called).I'm going to show you lots of code. You should type in code that Ishow you to see what happens. Play around with it and make changes.The worst that can happen is that it won't work. When I type in codeit will be formatted like this:
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That's so it is easy to distinguish from the other text. If you're reading this on the web, you'll notice the code is in color -- that's just to make it stand out, and to make the different parts of the code stand out from each other. The code you enter will probably not be colored, or the colors may be different, but it won't affect the code as long as you enter it the same way as it's printed here.
If the computer prints something out it will be formatted like this: Casinos in south florida. https://cooljload567.weebly.com/clubworld-no-deposit-bonus.html.
(Note that printed text goes to your screen, and does not involve paper. Before computers had screens, the output of computer programs would be printed on paper.)
If you try this program out and you get a syntax error, check and see what version of python you have. If you have python 3.0, you should be using the Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 3.0. This article was made for Python 2.6
There will often be a mixture of the text you type (which is shown in bold) and the text the program prints to the screen, which would look like this:
(Some of the tutorial has not been converted to this format. Since this is a wiki, you can convert it when you find it.)
I will also introduce you to the terminology of programming - for example, that programming is often referred to as coding. This will not only help you understand what programmers are talking about, but also help the learning process.
Now, on to more important things. In order to program in Python you need the Python software. If you don't already have the Python software go to http://www.python.org/download/ and get the proper version for your platform. Flat to fem pdf download. Download it, read the instructions and get it installed.
For Python programming you need a working Python installation and a text editor. Python comes with its own editor IDLE, which is quite nice and totally sufficient for the beginning. As you get more into programming, you will probably switch to some other editor like emacs, vi or another.
The Python download page is http://www.python.org/download. The most recent version is 3.1, but any Python 2.x version since 2.2 will work for this tutorial. Be careful with the upcoming Python 3, though, as some major details will change and break this tutorial's examples. A version of this tutorial for Python 3 is at Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 3. There are various different installation files for different computer platforms available on the download site. Here are some specific instructions for the most common operating systems:
You are probably lucky and Python is already installed on your machine. To test it type python on a command line. If you see something like that in the following section, you are set.
If you have to install Python, just use the operating system's package manager or go to the repository where your packages are available and get Python. Alternatively, you can compile Python from scratch after downloading the source code. If you get the source code make sure you compile in the Tk extension if you want to use IDLE.
Starting from Mac OS X (Tiger), Python ships by default with the operating system, but you might want to update to the newer version (check the version by starting python in a command line terminal). Also IDLE (the Python editor) might be missing in the standard installation. If you want to (re-)install Python, have a look at the Mac page on the Python download site.
Some computer manufacturers pre-install Python. To check if you already have it installed, open command prompt (cmd in run menu) or MS-DOS and type python. If it says 'Bad command or file name' you will need to download the appropriate Windows installer (the normal one, if you do not have a 64-bit AMD or Intel chip). Start the installer by double-clicking it and follow the procedure.Python for windows can be downloaded from the official site of python
Go into IDLE (also called the Python GUI). You should see a window that has some text like this:
The >>> is Python's way of telling you that you are ininteractive mode. In interactive mode what you type is immediatelyrun. Try typing 1+1 in. Python will respond with 2.Interactive mode allows you to test out and see what Python will do.If you ever feel you need to play with new Python statements, go intointeractive mode and try them out.
Go into IDLE if you are not already. In the menu at the top, select File then New Window. In the new window that appears, type the following:
Now save the program: select File from the menu, then Save. Save it as 'hello.py I want to play free games on my phone. ' (you can save it in any folder you want). Now that it is saved it can be run.
Next run the program by going to Run then Run Module (or if you have a older version of IDLE use Edit then Run script). This will output Hello, World! on the *Python Shell* window.
For a more in-depth introduction to IDLE, a longer tutorial with screenshots can be found at http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/idle_intro/index.html
If you are using Unix (such as Linux, Mac OSX, or BSD), if you make the program executable with chmod, and have as the first line:
you can run the python program with ./hello.py like any other command.
Note: In some computer environments, you need to write:
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It is very useful to stick to some rules regarding the file names of Python programs. Otherwise some things might go wrong unexpectedly. These don't matter as much for programs, but you can have weird problems if you don't follow them for module names (modules will be discussed later).
If you don't want to use Python from the command line, you don't have to, just use IDLE. To get into interactive mode just type python without any arguments. To run a program, create it with a text editor (Emacs has a good Python mode) and then run it with python program_name.
Additionally, to use Python within Vim, you may want to visit Using vim as a Python IDE
At some point in your Python career you will probably get stuck and have no clue about how to solve the problem you are supposed to work on. This tutorial only covers the basics of Python programming, but there is a lot of further information available.
First of all, Python is very well documented. There might even be copies of these documents on your computer, which came with your Python installation:* The official Python Tutorial by Guido van Rossum is often a good starting point for general questions.
There are a lot of other Python users out there, and usually they are nice and willing to help you. This very active user community is organised mostly through mailing lists and a newsgroup:
In order not to reinvent the wheel and discuss the same questions again and again, people will appreciate very much if you do a web search for a solution to your problem before contacting these lists!
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lxml is an xml library for python that doesn’t suck. It needs a recent libxml2 and libxslt. Mac OS X does not come with recent versions, and 10.5 breaks completely if you force it to try and use a recent version.
Mountain king video game. I used to use MacPorts for everything (which comes with py25-lxml) but ran into some issues with 10.5. So back to manual installs, it is.
Update March 1, 2009: in order to get libxml2 and libxslt python bindings working on 10.5.6, with a python.org 2.6 version of python, I had to do quite a bit more fiddling. If the above doesn’t work for you, try this:
And then install lxml normally.
(the use of autoreconf is explained by DarwinPorts folks, the use of ARCHFLAGS is explained by apple, and the hand-editing/hand-merging of libxslt and libxml python bindings for the build based on experimental fiddling.)
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