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Microsoft have released their C++ compiler and linker for use as a command line tool (you don't need to buy visual studio anymore):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
I've also found it hard to find a decent python forum - about the best I found are the newsgroups/mailinglists on this page:
http://www.python.org/community/lists.html
and the forum here:
http://python-forum.org/py/index.php
I've got a copy of the O'Reilly 'Learning Python' and 'Programming Python' books and they are great in combination - the first covers every dark corner of the basic syntax while the second is a bigger volume covering useful things you can do with python such as command line tools, GUI apps, web scripting etc.
If you haven't read about them already, familiarise yourself with the dir() function and the __doc__ attribute. dir() will display all the attributes of an object, so for example dir(stringvariable) will display all the string methods you can use on it among other things. the __doc__ attribute of a function or class instance will show you the docstring for that thing. The python builtins and standard library should all have useful docstrings.
I usually work with my Python code in eclipse, and a dos box open with an interactive python session running just so I can look up stuff like this wothout trawling through online HTML documentation (although you can still do this).
Python is great - I can do things in an hour that would take a day using C++
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