• Alfred Newman (13/13) Oct 18 2016 Hello and greetings,
• rikki cattermole (13/25) Oct 18 2016 TDPL is a great book to get an idea of what D is meant to do.
• bachmeier (4/17) Oct 18 2016 http://wiki.dlang.org/Programming_in_D_for_Python_Programmers
• Edwin van Leeuwen (3/9) Oct 18 2016 Another great book, available for free online:
• Alfred Newman (1/1) Oct 18 2016 @All, thanks a lot !
• Laeeth Isharc (6/19) Oct 19 2016 Welcome.

Alfred Newman <alfredonewman gmail.com> writes:

Hello and greetings,

I'm a brand new D developer coming from Python.

I decided to move to D, mainly because it's a compiled language 
and has a great runtime speed (and I don't feel confortable 
at Cython environment at all). And of course, D has a nice 
community and the language has nice syntax too... and is a joy to 
code with.

However, I have some important production code in Python to 
migrate to D and every help will count !

So, can you pls guys suggest me any resource like "D for a Python 
Developer" or so ? BTW, I just ordered the "D Programming 
Language" book from AA.

Cheers

rikki cattermole <rikki cattermole.co.nz> writes:

On 19/10/2016 1:03 AM, Alfred Newman wrote:
 Hello and greetings,

 I'm a brand new D developer coming from Python.

 I decided to move to D, mainly because it's a compiled language and has
 a great runtime speed (and I don't feel confortable at Cython
 environment at all). And of course, D has a nice community and the
 language has nice syntax too... and is a joy to code with.

 However, I have some important production code in Python to migrate to D
 and every help will count !

 So, can you pls guys suggest me any resource like "D for a Python
 Developer" or so ? BTW, I just ordered the "D Programming Language" book
 from AA.

 Cheers

TDPL is a great book to get an idea of what D is meant to do.
But it isn't completely matching up to what D is today.
There is an errata which contains errors with corrections[0].

You may also want to take a look at[1].
Otherwise browse the official spec, that is the way I learned.

Once you've got some of the basics down p0nce has a great D idioms 
resource[2].

If you run into trouble, please join us in #d on Freenode (IRC).
Much easier to help solve problems since it is interactive there.

[0] http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/
[1] http://tour.dlang.org
[2] http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/

bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:

On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 12:03:54 UTC, Alfred Newman wrote:
 Hello and greetings,

 I'm a brand new D developer coming from Python.

 I decided to move to D, mainly because it's a compiled language 
 and has a great runtime speed (and I don't feel confortable 
 at Cython environment at all). And of course, D has a nice 
 community and the language has nice syntax too... and is a joy 
 to code with.

 However, I have some important production code in Python to 
 migrate to D and every help will count !

 So, can you pls guys suggest me any resource like "D for a 
 Python Developer" or so ? BTW, I just ordered the "D 
 Programming Language" book from AA.

 Cheers

http://wiki.dlang.org/Programming_in_D_for_Python_Programmers

And also of interest:
http://code.dlang.org/packages/pyd

Edwin van Leeuwen <edder tkwsping.nl> writes:

On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 12:03:54 UTC, Alfred Newman wrote:
 Hello and greetings,

 I'm a brand new D developer coming from Python.

 So, can you pls guys suggest me any resource like "D for a 
 Python Developer" or so ? BTW, I just ordered the "D 
 Programming Language" book from AA.

 Cheers

Another great book, available for free online:
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html

Alfred Newman <alfredonewman gmail.com> writes:

 All, thanks a lot !

Laeeth Isharc <laeethnospam laeethnospam.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 12:03:54 UTC, Alfred Newman wrote:
 Hello and greetings,

 I'm a brand new D developer coming from Python.

 I decided to move to D, mainly because it's a compiled language 
 and has a great runtime speed (and I don't feel confortable 
 at Cython environment at all). And of course, D has a nice 
 community and the language has nice syntax too... and is a joy 
 to code with.

 However, I have some important production code in Python to 
 migrate to D and every help will count !

 So, can you pls guys suggest me any resource like "D for a 
 Python Developer" or so ? BTW, I just ordered the "D 
 Programming Language" book from AA.

 Cheers

Welcome.

Bear in mind that you can embed python in your D code using pyd 
if you want to do the port in stages.   You can write D libraries 
for python too - that's a bit fiddlier though,  and docs are a 
bit stale.