Daniel Nugent wrote: > Hi all, > > Don't worry, I'm not jumping ship, I'm just going to have to do a > project for a class in Python and I want to give myself as large an > advantage as possible. > > Does anyone have any Python tutorials that explain the foundations of > the language in terms of Ruby (perhaps?) or maybe you've got a link to > a Python tutorial that you found easy to read coming from Ruby? > For a while last year, everybody was blogging python vs. ruby: graham, Fowler, Bicking, Martelli, Eckel, Bray etc. http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Comparison_and_Review/ http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Ruby/ http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PythonVsRubyCodeExamples http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PythonVsRuby http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PythonAndRubyAreConverging http://www.rexx.com/~oinkoink/Ruby_v_Python.html http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=141312 http://blog.ianbicking.org/ruby-python-power.html http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/PythonAndRuby.rdoc http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyFromPython http://reflectivesurface.com/weblog/2004/12/19/why-rails http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1759,1778141,00.asp http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CollectionClosureMethod.html http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5915 http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/08/27/Ruby http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-October/305692.html awaretek.com has 125 python tutorials, and download the free trials of wingware and Komodo, as well as the documentation pack you get from Activestate. They make python as painless as possible (which isn't to say it'll be completely intuitive).