Re: News (to me) regarding Python for i

FYI, I'll be at COMMON in a few days and giving a few presentations and
labs on using Python on IBM i:

Monday:
2:00 - 6:15 pm: 3 open Python labs

Tuesday:
9:30 am: Getting Started with Python on IBM i

Wednesday:
8:00 am: Practical Guide to Using Python

If anyone is interested in using Python on IBM i, feel free to come to one
of my sessions to learn more about our 5733-OPS Python offering. I'll also
be heckling^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hattending the Open Source Roundtable on Tuesday
at 7pm. Otherwise, feel free to find me around - I'll be wandering around
the expo (and sometimes manning a ped).



"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 05/11/2016
12:01:12 PM:

From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 05/11/2016 12:01 PM
Subject: News (to me) regarding Python for i
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

In case folks missed it buried in another thread, IBM's open source
product 5733-OPS will soon (for some IBM-defined value of "soon") have
Option 4, which is Python 2.7. This will presumably have a lot in
common with Option 2, Python 3.4:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/
wiki/IBM%20i%20Technology%20Updates/page/Python

In the process of digging around, I happened to notice this PDF which
contains a lot of starter info for IBM's Python 3.4, including what
Buck *might* call a "fully worked" Excel example:

https://www.gateway400.org/documents/Gateway400/Handouts/
GetStartedWithPythonOnIBMi2016.pdf

In light of these new(ish) developments, I updated the midrange.com

wiki:

http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/Python

The wiki page is still very much a stub, but at least it's a more
up-to-date stub.

And speaking of up-to-date, I'm torn on whether to remove the link to
Garry Taylor's article(s). It was a decent effort for its time, but
now its only value (as I see it) is that it was written in a way that
seems very accessible to midrangers. There are a number of flaws in
that series of articles, at least one due to a misunderstanding of
Python, plenty of others due to obsolescence, and still others due to
HTML/CSS issues.

John Y.
--
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing

list

To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.

Please contact support@xxxxxxxxxxxx for any subscription related

questions.