Well, I'll assume you
downloaded Python already, so just fire up a text editor of some sort. Notepad works, though something that has syntax highlighting is preferred, such as
Crimson Editor. Python comes with its own editor, but quite frankly it's not very good.
Anyway, the hardest thing I had to learn (coming from C++ and the like) is that indentation matters. So doing this:
Code:
x = 5
if x == 5:
print "yams"
print "yams"
else:
print "what"
print "what" |
That works in a pretty obvious way. Normally you'd need an END IF or brackets to show blocks like that. I indent by habit anyway, but it's odd that it's part of the syntax.
Python scripts can be run either by command line ("C:\wherever\> python c:\what\test.py") or by double-clicking on them in Windows (assuming you let Python have the file extension .py). I like the double-click method because I'm lazy.
...Of course, I haven't played with Blender itself much, mainly because I have no artistic abilities whatsoever. I am able to make a cube at least though. Maybe I'll make a game where you get to watch a cube fall through blank space, because that's the limits of my abilities at this point.