Learning Python for the non OO geek!

[evildrneil]

I've just picked up what looks to be a very usefull tool for some of the research I'm doing, however it's written in Python which I don't know at all! I'm an old fashioned procedural programmer (show me PERL, PHP or C and I'm pretty happy - JAVA makes me !) and never got into all this object oriented malarky. However this looks usefull enough that I'm prepared to put in the time to pick up enough Python to use it - are there any python users out there who can tell me a) how easy it is to pick up from a non OO background and b) what the best resources / books / whatever are for trying to learn it.

 

Thanks in advance

[sugarcube]

the world of linux has some great help sites as a lot of that is written in python.

heres a good start

hth

[Joelc]

The O'Reilly book is good, but nothing is better than playing with a copy of the docs and vim.

 

Its pretty easy to learn, took me about a month to get a decent grip on it. Its pretty funky when it comes to network stuff, I wrote our factory monitoring system in it, and it took less than 50 lines for the client, and about 100 for the server.

 

Joel

[Rich]

I've just picked up what looks to be a very usefull tool for some of the research I'm doing, however it's written in Python which I don't know at all! I'm an old fashioned procedural programmer (show me PERL, PHP or C and I'm pretty happy - JAVA makes me !) and never got into all this object oriented malarky. However this looks usefull enough that I'm prepared to put in the time to pick up enough Python to use it - are there any python users out there who can tell me a) how easy it is to pick up from a non OO background and b) what the best resources / books / whatever are for trying to learn it.

 

Thanks in advance

 

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