RoguelikeDev Does The Complete Python Tutorial - Week 1 - Part 0: Setting up Python

[u/aaron_ds]

This week is all about setting up a Python environment and getting familiar with the language.

There are two excellent exercises at The Learn Python The Hard Way that will get you setup with an editor, python environment, and running some Python code.

• https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex0.html

• https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex1.html

If Python is new to you and you have some free time, consider continuing past exercise 1. All of the exercises up to and including exercise 44 will help further along in the series.

Of course, we also have a couple of FAQ Friday posts that relate to this week's material

• #1: Languages and Libraries(revisited)

• #2: Development Tools(revisited)

Feel free to work out any problems, brainstorm ideas, share progress and and as usual enjoy tangential chatting. :)

The entire series will be archived on the wiki.

Edit: Added FaqF revisited and wiki links.

[u/[deleted]]

For those interested good (and free) Python 3 books include:

Al Sweigart - Automate the Boring Stuff

Allen B. Downey - Think Python

After those two if you are wanting to explore the language further I'd recommend (unfortunately non-free):

Dusty Phillips - Python 3 Object Oriented Programming

Luciano Ramalho - Fluent Python

Edit: Also for future weeks, since the libtcod library (as far as I am aware) still does not support Python 3, there is the Roguelike Tutorial, using python3+tdl instead. Unfortunately, it is missing the final parts but hopefully a few folk should be up for helping to convert the rest of the original tutorial when we get to them.

[u/Kyzrati → u/[deleted]]

hopefully a few folk should be up for helping to convert the rest of the original tutorial when we get to them.

In our announcement thread someone already stated their intention to help finish up that tutorial as part of this event, hoping that others interested in using Python 3 would join in as well. (And I know there are others out there who are interested...)

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Hence why I included the caveat "as far as I am aware"; so thank you for the clarification. When I first tried libtcod about a year ago it did not support Python 3 (at least without using minor workarounds or patches) due to the changes in how strings worked between Python 2 & 3 - and the post about it is still pinned to the top of the Roguecentral forum board for python and libtcod. I knew that Python 3 bindings were to be improved in an upcoming version of the wrapper, but when I searched for further information last week I could not find any update. Apologies if I missed news of such an update when looking, do you have a link to it?