Warning: Long post (regarding Python) Hi Folks, I do not earn my living programming, but on occasion, I write some simple stuff in C for work to aid in the analysis of data. On average, I may write one program a year. Like many of my colleagues, I do use commercial software for plotting data in a windows environment. Some plotting software come with C-like scripting, and you can record ASCII text of your "key stroke history" as you make the plot. This is handy for making other plots in the same format. Just run the script again, with a different set of data. In the windows environment, there are many plotting programs, but the one I am most familar with is Axum. (At work, I have to work in a windows or Mac environment. At home, I am slowly learning Linux - just got my new external modem activated under minicom (a nice "jingle", by the way!), I am now studying PPP). I developed a complex Axum script (100's of lines) over the last year to help analyze some particular data we were collecting. However the script required some extensive set up for each run. Several months ago I read about Python's ability to handle ASCII text, its easy syntax, and learned Python for windows existed. So I downloaded Python, took the turorial and in 2 weeks (maybe 5 days of actual effort), I had a working usable front end to the complex script. By the way, I recall only three crashes before it actually worked on the 4th try. Apart from the error checking, the Python script is rather simple: it opens an ASCII template file containing C-like commands, makes changes to about 10 of them, writes out a copy of the modified template file, calls Axum.exe, Axum then runs the new script). Over a period of month, I added extensive error checking (not so simple, but was ammazed that I did it). So now, the technician (with very little knowledge of computers) changes 2 or 3 lines in a Python dictionary, and sees the finished analysis at the time she runs the experiments. I have added more "defs" and "dictionaires" to help generate other types of plots we use. As you can see, I am a Python Head. Enjoy the tutorial. Regards, Charley Samy Elashmawy wrote:
Yep l, some one posted the url , and I liked what I read about it. Plan on ordering it , Like what I saw.
Right now I am down loading a python tutorial and will read it over the week end.
Thanks Darrell PS- I am a newbie to Linux and starting programming VB-only for my job, but I want a broader base.
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