Looking for a good Python 3.x tutorial

[shadow_sculpter]

I've come out of lurking to ask for some advice. I am interested to learn to program with Python 3.x. I already have everything set up to get started, I just need a good beginner friendly tutorial. Most of the tutorials I find online are usually for Python 2.x which won't work, because they changed how things worked in Python 3.x. So if anybody could point me towards a good Python 3.x tutorial, it would be greatly appreciated.

 

(Also if someone could point me to somewhere I could learn how to use Blender 2.6x, that would be great as well, though Python is the main focus.)

[Guest sakura]

Here you go:

http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.5/tutorial/index.html

 

This should be more than enough to get you started, and I know at least a couple people here who have written in python before. Feel free to ask any questions, best of luck.

 

As for Blender, I don't know as much, but it looks like this is where you should get started

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Introduction/About_this_Manual

[shadow_sculpter]

Thanks for the links sakura. I've actually been following a newer version of the tutorial in the python documentation at http://docs.python.o...rial/index.html

 

I've got as far as section 5.5 Dictionaries. What I've been finding is that the tutorial does a good job at showing what each function etc. can do, but my issue is that I don't feel like I'm being shown how to use things they show. I'm looking for something along the lines of http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ except for python 3.x. It's difficult, because I can't use any of the 2.x tutorials because Python 3.x is backwards incompatible. I collected a list of different tutorials I plan to check out in the near future, I hope I find a suitable one.

 

As for the Blender link, thank you, that looks exactly like what I need.

[Guest sakura]

Alright, in that case these are probably more what you're looking for, they're really good resources and both for python 3.x

 

http://getpython3.com/diveintopython3/

 

http://www.swaroopch.org/notes/Python_en:Table_of_Contents

http://www.swaroopch.com/files/byteofpython/byte_of_python_v192.pdf <- The content from the above link, in PDF form

[shadow_sculpter]

Thanks, these look like what I wanted.