Jun-26-2019, 02:27 PM
(Jun-26-2019, 02:10 PM)Larz60+ Wrote: How do you expect to use something as complex as a computer language without knowing the very basics?
I strongly suggest that you spend the time to take a tutorial.
Recommended: https://www.python-course.eu/python3_course.php
or
https://interactivepython.org/runestone/...index.html
Well, I've worked with object-oriented scripting in Actionscript 2/3 and Javascript for a number of years. So it's not like I don't know anything about programming. Python is more like Java or C#, so...I hear you. It's a more complex language than what I'm used to. It's also got a slew of libraries. I didn't know it had a such a reach.
I'm used to mostly picking up an API and toying/running with it. For Python I was thinking that I might be able to treat it like SSH or VI editor but it seems that it needs a more directive based approach. Like it behaves more like a runtime language than an environment.
For instance, if I can find all the files in a directory that's great. But if there's no white space, it's totally illegible and only of useful for data. Know what I mean? Like if I have to to write out an entire path string then parse all this data just to look at where I am in a PWD (present working directory) I'm better off using Shell than Python for OS environment purposes. I'll use Shell to position myself then put together a Python code once in position if that's the case.
But I'm new at this and just trying to understand the just of this.
I hope that makes sense.