v2.7 Python Q&A
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Ear
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Send any questions you have related to Python or v2.7 in general to escovan@myrealbox.com. I'll try my best to help people with any problems they may be having.
Additionally, I will still help with v2.0 and VC, so feel free to ask for help with that too. Make sure that Python or VC is in the subject line respectively.
Note: If I receive enough questions, then I'll create a website for the Q&A.
- Ear (escovan@myrealbox.com) "It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."
Posted on 2001-09-14 19:42:30
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Devon
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...would be a simple Python documentation that gives the Python equivalents for basic VC commands such as string manipulation, function declaration, global and local variables, and especially the mathematic commands. The official Python docs seem to go out of their way to be confusing and overtly technical, and the V2.7 docs only cover functions Speed created himself.
Powerful as it is, Python is probably far more daunting to the average newbie than V2C ever was, as the offical docs seem to assume a familiarity with coding in general, and naturally cannot give any examples in the context of VERGE.
-Devon
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Square's making money.
We're making art.
Posted on 2001-09-18 23:19:06
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andy
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The language reference on python.org is nasty and overcomplicated. Avoid it. ^_^
The tutorial, while being an excellent tutorial in its own right, is a much better reference, believe it or not, when it comes to the language itself, and its syntax. The library reference is the place to look when it comes to modules, and builtin functions.
What I am doing myself, however is making a v2.7 specific tutorial. It's in the zip. I'm basically making a game from scratch, and documenting what I'm doing, why and how as I go. Not the most structured approach, but I'm more likely to get all the details this way. :)
If anybody else would like to help documenting, please do. Send me whatever you come up with.
"Ignorance is its own reward" -- Proverb
Posted on 2001-09-19 00:57:18
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Roto
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Since Dev just sent you off to pawn over how VC and it's equivalents in Python, you might as well fix up VC's number one problem (as you had so mentioned many months/weeks ago): the lack of comprehensive and complete documentation. Think something like a "what the hell does this do and how do I use it".
Hell, explain what the hell user.cfg is too.
Posted on 2001-09-19 03:14:31
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Rayner
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I'd be more than willing to write a standard compiled help file for an introduction on Python's implementation in VERGE. My main problem is: Any information I could give you on this is ALREADY THERE. Anything anyone could write would simply be a combination of Ear and tSB's VERGE Reference Page and chapters 3 through 5 of the python.org tutorial nicely regurgitated. People are thinking the whole Python language needs to be known just like the whole VC references needed to be known. This is simply not true. You don't need classes, exceptions, extensions, etc AT ALL to make a great game. Like tSB said, avoid the Language Ref. I think what you truly want is a nicely packaged regurgitation of all the info that's already out there. Does the community want this? Because if so I'd be willing to do it. :)
Posted on 2001-09-19 16:04:34
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Devon
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I consider myself fairly skilled at this sort of thing and Python's docs are really bugging me. I got the basics, but all the good stuff is poorly explained and basically hidden away in that mass of technobabble. (I never thought *I*'d use that word.) For someone coming in fresh, I can't imagine (barring prior experience) that they'd be able to make head or tail of it.
-Devon
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Square's making money.
We're making art.
Posted on 2001-09-20 05:24:02
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Devon
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I'm glad it wasn't just me. :)
The tutorial is much more useful, thanks.
-Devon
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Square's making money.
We're making art.
Posted on 2001-09-20 07:58:43
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Hatchet
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The newbies will love ya! ~_^
Let's just hope it gets posted some place visible, ie here, tho I somehow doubt that. :P
-Hatchet
-Hatchet
Posted on 2001-09-21 16:56:37
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andy
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... you could just give it to me, and I could put it on my site. ^_~
"Ignorance is its own reward" -- Proverb
Posted on 2001-09-23 22:33:30
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