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Awesome online Python resources

pythonMay 8, 2009 1 min read

I have been spending a fair amount of time learning Python, and have come across a couple of cool online resources. If you are interested in learning Python but don't want to buy a book, these (and lots of time writing code) resources are really all you need to become a Python guru: Python documentation: http://docs.python.org/ Python tutorial: http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ Mozilla team tutorials: Various Python tutorials:http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html Dive into Python book: http://diveintopython.org/toc/index.html

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Printing fractions with Python

pythonMay 4, 2009 1 min

I recently converted from bc to Python for basic calculations, and I like the fact that I can do basic arithmetic from the Python interpreter: One thing that bugged me about this was the fact that I had to add a decimal point to the input values to get a fraction as a result. While reading through one of my Python books, I came across the future module's division feature: This allow fractional values to be displayed by default, which is exactly what I'm looking for. I have been spending a bunch of time learning Ruby and Python, and so far I am really digging these languages.

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