Python's unique - a simple, object oriented scripting language that makes for clean, easily maintained and practical coding for computer professionals. It has many and varied uses - typically characterised by applications that require code that can easily be updated and amended as requirements change, and is to be looked after by a person or a team who has programming as one of their main tasks rather than occasional / casual coders.

At Well House Consultants, we run:

• A 4 day Learning to Program in Python course, which teaches you programming from the Python perspective - it comprises an introduction day which gets you going gently, and it's then a joint course with "Python Programming" ...

• A 3 day public course that covers Python programming. Some prior programming knowledge is assumed, although that doesn't need to be in an "OO" language. As well as the fundamentals, we cover object orientation and how it's implemented and Python's string and regular expression handling, collections, and much more. Delegates leave with a broad understanding of the language to get them well on the road to their traget application, and with the ability to make good sense of the manuals and other documentation which describes more advanced features.

If you've a group of three or more delegates who wish to learn about Python at the same time, a Specially Run Courses course can be arranged, and for larger groups we can also run a Private Courses course at your offices. Such courses are tailored to meet your requirements - please contact us to discuss the detail of what you need.

Python 3 ... As Python moves forward to the new release, and that new release becomes commonly adopted, our courses are being updated to cover both Python 2 and Python 3. This is a progressive process, and courses include examples in both Python 2 and Python 3, with instruction on how to move between them.

You'll not be surprised to learn that we use Python ourselves for some of our web site applications and behind - the - scene scripts. For example, our usage reporting system emails us a daily summary of visitors to this web site who are visiting from the UK ore Ireland and who dally around the course description pages.

Python was written by Guido van Rossum, who is still very active in its future development. But these days he has a great deal of help from others too numerous to mention.