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A Quick, Painless Tutorial on the Python Language. Norman Matloff University of California, Davis June 17, 2008 ©2003-2008, N. Matloff Contents What Are Scripting Languages? Languages like C and C++ allow a programmer to write code at a very detailed level which has good execution speed (especially in the case of C). The term scripting language has never been formally defined, but here are the typical characteristics: Used often for system administration, Web programming, text processing, etc. Why Python? The first really popular scripting language was Perl.

Advocates of Python, often called pythonistas, say that Python is so clear and so enjoyable to write in that one should use Python for all of one's programming work, not just for scripting work. Background Needed Anyone with even a bit of programming experience should find the material through Section 8 to be quite accessible. The material beginning with Section 10 will feel quite comfortable to anyone with background in an object-oriented programming (OOP) language such as C++ or Java.

Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Python. Couchdb Wiki. Bookmarks - Python Course: Tutorial, Reference and Advanced Topics. Learn Python The Hard Way, 2nd Edition — Learn Python The Hard Way, 2nd Edition. HOWTO Create Python GUIs using HTML. Introduction Message passing is the means by which processes communicate. Much like humans communicate by talking to each other or writing notes to each other, so do computer programs communicate with each other.

Sockets and pipes are prime examples of message passing technologies. Shared memory can also be used for message passing. Programming with functions or objects is also a form of message passing. In this case, calling a function or method is equivalent to sending a message to your program or to an object in your program. Essentially, your program is communicating with itself. Some programming language libraries have special queues that can be used to pass messages between threads in a multithreaded application. Message Passing with GTK Here I am going to explain message passing between GTK and your custom main loop. GTK has a so-called "idle loop. " In the Python programming language, functions are first-class citizens that can be passed around just like normal data. Welcome | Werkzeug (The Python WSGI Utility Library)

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