Hi everyone! I was worried the group would be me by myself for a while, so nice to see a few people wanting to help already.
I'm busy beavering away on the new Python cheat sheet, and hope to release it this month. I'm interesting in getting your thoughts on content for the content, especially if you have experience with Python.
At the moment, I have added the following items to the cheat sheet (although any of these could be removed if unnecessary or unhelpful):
Date formatting arguments Indexes and Slices (see the indexes and slices reference at http://wiki.python.org/moin/MovingToPythonFromOtherLanguages) Regex Syntax (fairly standard for programming cheat sheets) String Methods Class Special Methods (__new__, __init__, etc)
Those fill a little over 2/3 of the available space, so there's at least the balance of a column left to fill, and possibly more if any of the above is removed.
A few of the other items I've thought about adding so far are:
* More methods (filesystem and array/list methods have proved useful for other languages) * Built-in object, functions or exceptions * Data types * Reserved Words * Command line (invocation) options * Attributes (http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR24/PQR2.4.html#typeAttributes) * Operators (there seem to be more than is typical)
Any thoughts on the content list so far, and what should fill the remaining space?
I'm hoping to get a preview release done by a week today, and will release it to the group first to get some feedback, and then will release is as soon as possible, depending on how much needs changing and how long it takes me to write up the description of the content.
I've been busy dealing with more hosting problems this last week, so
if anyone has any thoughts on the Python cheat sheet content, it's not
too late to add them :)
Dave Child wrote:
> Hi everyone! I was worried the group would be me by myself for a
> while, so nice to see a few people wanting to help already.
> I'm busy beavering away on the new Python cheat sheet, and hope to
> release it this month. I'm interesting in getting your thoughts on
> content for the content, especially if you have experience with
> Python.
> At the moment, I have added the following items to the cheat sheet
> (although any of these could be removed if unnecessary or unhelpful):
> Date formatting arguments
> Indexes and Slices (see the indexes and slices reference at
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/MovingToPythonFromOtherLanguages)
> Regex Syntax (fairly standard for programming cheat sheets)
> String Methods
> Class Special Methods (__new__, __init__, etc)
> Those fill a little over 2/3 of the available space, so there's at
> least the balance of a column left to fill, and possibly more if any
> of the above is removed.
> A few of the other items I've thought about adding so far are:
> * More methods (filesystem and array/list methods have proved useful
> for other languages)
> * Built-in object, functions or exceptions
> * Data types
> * Reserved Words
> * Command line (invocation) options
> * Attributes (http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR24/PQR2.4.html#typeAttributes)
> * Operators (there seem to be more than is typical)
> Any thoughts on the content list so far, and what should fill the
> remaining space?
> I'm hoping to get a preview release done by a week today, and will
> release it to the group first to get some feedback, and then will
> release is as soon as possible, depending on how much needs changing
> and how long it takes me to write up the description of the content.
I always like the list of functions most, reserved words and command
line options are not so interesting, because you rarely look up that.
And from the Exceptions only the most important ones, like IndexError,
KeyErrory, TypeError and ZeroDivision Error.
Maybe you should have a look at some important modules like os.
And you could mention sys.argv[].
Best regards, Charly
On 17 Jul., 15:35, Dave Child <d...@addedbytes.com> wrote:
> I've been busy dealing with more hosting problems this last week, so
> if anyone has any thoughts on the Python cheat sheet content, it's not
> too late to add them :)
> Dave
> Dave Child wrote:
> > Hi everyone! I was worried the group would be me by myself for a
> > while, so nice to see a few people wanting to help already.
> > I'm busy beavering away on the new Python cheat sheet, and hope to
> > release it this month. I'm interesting in getting your thoughts on
> > content for the content, especially if you have experience with
> > Python.
> > At the moment, I have added the following items to the cheat sheet
> > (although any of these could be removed if unnecessary or unhelpful):
> > Date formatting arguments
> > Indexes and Slices (see the indexes and slices reference at
> >http://wiki.python.org/moin/MovingToPythonFromOtherLanguages)
> > Regex Syntax (fairly standard for programming cheat sheets)
> > String Methods
> > Class Special Methods (__new__, __init__, etc)
> > Those fill a little over 2/3 of the available space, so there's at
> > least the balance of a column left to fill, and possibly more if any
> > of the above is removed.
> > A few of the other items I've thought about adding so far are:
> > * More methods (filesystem and array/list methods have proved useful
> > for other languages)
> > * Built-in object, functions or exceptions
> > * Data types
> > * Reserved Words
> > * Command line (invocation) options
> > * Attributes (http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR24/PQR2.4.html#typeAttributes)
> > * Operators (there seem to be more than is typical)
> > Any thoughts on the content list so far, and what should fill the
> > remaining space?
> > I'm hoping to get a preview release done by a week today, and will
> > release it to the group first to get some feedback, and then will
> > release is as soon as possible, depending on how much needs changing
> > and how long it takes me to write up the description of the content.
Thanks for your feedback and suggestions. I spent some time on this at the weekend.
I've added a sys.argv section, but wanted to check something - did you mean a sort of visual example of how vars are assigned from the command line to sys.argv? I've added a block with a python command line call with arguments and shown how they are assigned to sys.argv below that.
I added an os variables section and a sys variables section. I did try and add the methods, but there's no way to fit that in without either arbitrarily removing many of the methods (managed to get it down to 83 items without removing anything but no further) or bumping at least 2 other sections.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:49 PM, CharlyW <charly.walt...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I always like the list of functions most, reserved words and command > line options are not so interesting, because you rarely look up that. > And from the Exceptions only the most important ones, like IndexError, > KeyErrory, TypeError and ZeroDivision Error. > Maybe you should have a look at some important modules like os. > And you could mention sys.argv[].
> Best regards, Charly
> On 17 Jul., 15:35, Dave Child <d...@addedbytes.com> wrote: >> I've been busy dealing with more hosting problems this last week, so >> if anyone has any thoughts on the Python cheat sheet content, it's not >> too late to add them :)
>> Dave
>> Dave Child wrote: >> > Hi everyone! I was worried the group would be me by myself for a >> > while, so nice to see a few people wanting to help already.
>> > I'm busy beavering away on the new Python cheat sheet, and hope to >> > release it this month. I'm interesting in getting your thoughts on >> > content for the content, especially if you have experience with >> > Python.
>> > At the moment, I have added the following items to the cheat sheet >> > (although any of these could be removed if unnecessary or unhelpful):
>> > Date formatting arguments >> > Indexes and Slices (see the indexes and slices reference at >> >http://wiki.python.org/moin/MovingToPythonFromOtherLanguages) >> > Regex Syntax (fairly standard for programming cheat sheets) >> > String Methods >> > Class Special Methods (__new__, __init__, etc)
>> > Those fill a little over 2/3 of the available space, so there's at >> > least the balance of a column left to fill, and possibly more if any >> > of the above is removed.
>> > A few of the other items I've thought about adding so far are:
>> > * More methods (filesystem and array/list methods have proved useful >> > for other languages) >> > * Built-in object, functions or exceptions >> > * Data types >> > * Reserved Words >> > * Command line (invocation) options >> > * Attributes (http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR24/PQR2.4.html#typeAttributes) >> > * Operators (there seem to be more than is typical)
>> > Any thoughts on the content list so far, and what should fill the >> > remaining space?
>> > I'm hoping to get a preview release done by a week today, and will >> > release it to the group first to get some feedback, and then will >> > release is as soon as possible, depending on how much needs changing >> > and how long it takes me to write up the description of the content.
