So yea.. Python

I thought I'd have a crack at this language.. and it is really, really weird. Probably one of the nicest things I've noticed so far is you do substrings like arrays. Which makes perfect sense and seems much more efficient. I've heard that people use Python to write games but ummm.. how? Can it interface with Direct X or something?

Oh and.. can anyone recommend some decent tutorials? I've been going through the one on the official site but pretty boring. It seems more like a list of features than a tutorial.

Oh yea, in before 'one word, forced indentation, thread closed' etc.

Hay guyz what do you think? XD this is my first program in Python:

forced = 'THE FORCED INDENTATION OF CODE'
for i in range(len(forced)):

    if i % 2:
        print forced[i]
       
    else:
        print ' '*4 + forced[i]

http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=python

Most of the python tutorials I've seen are quite dull. It seems "pythonic" to take things too seriously...

The recommendation I hear the most, Dive into Python, is so full of shit and fail it's an insomnia cure.

http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html
Thanks but this is exactly what I was reading and it's boring as shit.

http://www.google.com/search?q=python
OMG HOW DUZ I USE GOOGLE? LOL

I don't know about DirectX, but Python and OpenGL don't get along. Learn how to imbed C into a Python-program, to make your own back-end.

print '\n'.join('\n    '.join(t)
for f in ['THE FORCED INDENTATION OF CODE']
for t in zip(f[::2], f[1::2]))

>>5
Ever join #python on freenode? The topic says "NO LOL"...

Oh, and to answer the question, http://www.pygame.org/

>>7
Uh? I've used Python with OpenGL (and wxPython) in a largish program. It worked really well.

The Pygame forum is so badly maintained. It's spammed to shit and no one posts in it. I never understood what the point is in that. Why is it spammers always turn up when no one uses a board anymore? And as if anyone is going to click on those links.. no matter how interesting they may seem. Good way to get your PC fucked.

>>11
Because if nobody posts, it's likely that moderators aren't watching it closely either. Spammers aren't looking for *people* to click on links; they're just looking for page rank.

>>1
If strings behaving like lists that can be operated or used in against is surprising, wait till you see the rest, lots of features you'll learn to love - or hate.

Python is a general purpose dynamic language. It can be used for system scripting, web applications, desktop applications, network applications, games, scientific computing, and as an embedded scripting language. It's commonly used for system-related applications and scripts, as an embedded language, and for scientific computing, among others. There are interfaces to POSIX, Win32, SDL, OpenGL, DirectX, wxWindows and others.

For a tutorial, I recommend Guido's own from http://docs.python.org . If you're familiar with dynamic languages, you can go through it in two days and start reading and writing Python (with the help of the standard library documentation) right away.

>>10
I couldn't do texture-mapping, when I used wxPython. Well, my knowledge of OpenGL was a little sparse, when I wrote this demo:
http://python-forum.org/py/viewtopic.php?t=3757

What's the word on PyGame's upgrade for Python 2.5?

>>6

It's a fucking library reference.  Of course it isn't exciting.

>>14
Then maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't run around telling people that "Python and OpenGL don't get along" and advicing them to reinvent the wheel.

>>16
You win this round, motherfucker; but I've still got Togl refusing to compile with recent versions of Tkinter for no apparent reason! Haha! What have you to say, nao?

Now why won't the code I linked to work? Everyone I've shown it to says that the damn thing thing ought to give more than a white rectangle.

>>17
are you loading images with power-of-2 dimensions

>>18
128x128

I'm not THAT new.

python is so stupid, perl has existed for so long and works

>>20
yes because python and perl are trying to achieve the same things and have the exact same philosophy

A blank instead of a texture may be OpenGL's way of saying that it doesn't recognize the texture format. It's the only thing I can see in your code that could possibly screw up.

fuck off python fags

>>23
How can we have a proper flamewar when you don't even tell us whether you're a Haskell fag, a LISP wanker, a VB tard, a Java loser or a real C programmer?
Fine, I'll just pick one for you; GTFO, you senile old fossil, and take your FORTRAN compiler with you!

>>20
perl is so stupid, lisp has existed for so long and works

>>22
I'm glad to see you say that. I've tried multiple formats, and nothing works. GLUT loads things finely.

I'll stick with my decision to return to C/++. How do I get Togl to work? I'm just curious, at this point.

>>1
http://www.diveintopython.org

'LISP wanker' lopl

WANKAH

NO EXCEPTIONS

>>14
try using gluBuild2DMipmaps instead of glTexImage2D.

ACTUAL ADVICE ON 4CHAN? ITS MORE LIKELY THAN YOU THINK.

Anyone not stuck in the '90s is using ARB_texture_rectangle.

Can moderators ban this faggot?

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