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[disciple]

[antiloquax]

This looks good. I like Python.
If you don't have Python 3 on your system (Python 2 comes with the devx), you might want to use this pet for Python 3.1.4.
Python 3.1.4

[Edit] The pygame PET I made, does not work - link removed. Instructions on installing pygame follow in a new post].

This website has some useful pets too - Cairo, TK and TCL - which you also need.
I'll also add a couple of useful tutorials I have used:
A Byte of Python
Introduction to Computer Science Using Python and Pygame
mark

[disciple]

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When installing Pythong, I needed TK and TCL for the tkinter module, which the Python IDLE relies on.

I must admit that I am not absolutely sure what Cairo does ! But I couldn't get Python 3 to install properly without it.

I am learning Python 3 mainly because I had never learned Python before, so it seemed to make sense to go with the newer version. Installing it will not harm your existing Python 2.x installation (which many applications need).

Python is on version 3.2.2 (I think). However, Pygame tends to lag behind a bit - the newest version works best with Python 3.1.4.

As I say, I don't know much about the history of Python. One thing I have seen mentioned is that "print" is function like any other. So it's:
>>> print("Hello World")
Rather than
>>> print "Hello World"
etc.

The other reason was that I bought Michael Dawson's (very good) "Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner" - which is about Python3.

[GustavoYz]

@Disciple:
http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/whatsnew/3.0.html

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Thanks, GustavoYz - I'll have a look at that myself, as this question comes up fairly often.
I know that Arch Linux comes with Python 3 as default, which has caused some problems. Since the versions will co-exist happily it seems to me that we should have Python 2.x for software and Python 3.x for leaning to program.

[Lobster]

I like Python. However I have never been able to create a Gui with Python.
It is usually the first thing I want to do.
Have you done it? How?
As far as I know Python is available in the devx
- so you could use Glade as the GUI creation tool - again never found that straight forward.

Also available in the devx is the genie language which is python and BASIC like - but compiled . . .
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/ValaGenieintro

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Hi Lobster, I am very much a newbie at Python. You can create GUIs with the tkinter module I mentioned above.

I don't know how to make the buttons DO anything, but I have played around with this (from Michael Dawson's book),

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[Lobster]

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