Talk:Python Programming/Getting Python

How to expand this book ?
I think we have a nice idea here: Python is a very good teaching medium. In my humble opinion, it can be for object-oriented programming (OOP) what Pascal was for structured programming.

It is very simple and yet has implemented all OOP concepts i ever heard about.

So, i'd like to ask your opinion, dear wikipedians: how to complement this WikiBook so it becomes a full fledged WikiBook and a nice introduction to programming with Python ? -- Hgfernan 12 May 2004


 * I think it needs a lot of work in just about every respect. -- Gherald 15 Aug 2004

Could somebody elaborate on how to get a saved python program? I entered the program in a notepad file. But when I try to get it on the python command line. it says that the : in C:\ is wrong syntax. How do I get the programs? --elpenmaster

You will need to have Python Interpreter on you PATH. It has been a long time since I did this but it should work. Right Click on My Computer and choose Properties. Now look for a button or tab name Enviroment. There should be a Button name Variables that opens up a Dialog Box and on the upper half of the windows the PATH Variable should be present with its value just append at the end ;C:\Python2.5\ --Dragonecc

Unix section
Might it be appropriate to maybe break the unix section down into parts, for example, having a "Debian" section, "Gentoo", "Fedora/Centos/Redhat/RPM", and so on. What do you guys think? - 66.93.220.3 04:20, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Agree I started with Ubuntu and added the Mac OS X --Dragonecc (talk) 21:21, 7 December 2007 (UTC)