Python Resources for Beginners and Professionals

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Beginner’s Delight

• Beginner’s guide to Python
• The Hitchhiker’s guide to Python
• Learn Python the hard way


• Google’s Python class
• Python for Beginners
• Python tracks at Codecademy
• Python Monk
• Best way to learn python
• Python Tips, tools and resources
• Python Koans: Learn Python through TDD
• LearnStreet Python course
• Beginner projects for a python newbie
• Learn X in Y minutes – Python
• Python Practice book
• Facts and myths about Python names and values
• args and *kwargs in python explained
• Common newbie mistakes in Python- Part 1
• Common newbie mistakes in Python- Part 2
• PySchools
• Some cool Python Tricks
• http://blog.amir.rachum.com/post/30176371115/you-cant-handle-the-truth
• Better Python APIs
• Python Gotchas
• Declaring dependencies in Python

Style Guide and Idioms

• PEP 8 – Style Guide for Python Code
• Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python

Dictionary

• Python hash, id and dictionary order
• Notes on dictionary implementation

Decorators

• Understanding Python Decorators in 12 easy steps
• Common uses of Python decorators – Quora
• Common uses of Python decorators – Stack Overflow
• Python Decorators
• Decorators I: Introduction to Python Decorators
• Decorators and annotations
• The dark side of decorators
• Thinking out aloud: Python decorators
• Using Python decorators for registering callbacks
• Meta-matters: Using decorators for better Python programming

Generators

• Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers

Yield

• Python yield keyword explained

Context Managers

• Understanding Python’s with statement

Unicode

• Explain Unicode like I’m five years old
• Unicode Pain
• Python encodings and Unicode
• The Updated Guide to Unicode on Python

Metaclasses

• A primer on python metaclasses
• What is a metaclass in Python ?
• Yet Another Python Metaclass tutorial

Documentation

• Documentation is King
• Make your open source project documentation suck less

Sphinx

• Quick Sphinx documentation for Python

Debugging

• Debugging Tools in Python

Testing

• Nose Introduction
• Unittest Introduction
• How To Use Coverage.py With Unittest

Profiling

• A guide to analyzing Python performance

Packaging

• Sharing Your Labor of Love: PyPI Quick And Dirty
• Open Sourcing a Python Project the Right Way

Deployment

Fabric

• Using Fabric in a development environment

Web

• Python and Realtime Web

Frameworks

Flask

• Flask Mega Tutorial Series
• Designing a RESTful API with Python and Flask
• Building websites in Python with Flask
• How I structure my Flask apps
• Designing a RESTful API using Flask-RESTful
• Rapid Web Prototyping with Lightweight Tools

Web2Py

• Building a Twitter clone in Web2Py

Django

• The official Django documentation
• Getting started with Django
• Building a hacker news clone in Django
• Django Architecture: The good, bad and ugly
• http://www.lightbird.net/dbe/
• http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/series?name=PPN7NA155

Bottle

• Developing with Bottle- Part 1

API and Web Services

• How to access various web services in python

Scraping

• Web Scraping with BeautifulSoup
• Web Scraping 101 with Python
• How to automatically search and download torrents with Python and Scrapy

Mobile Development

Kivy

• Creating an app in Kivy

Image Processing

• http://www.riisen.dk/dop/pil.html

WSGI

• Getting started with WSGI
• WSGI Basics

Databases

SQLAlchemy

• http://www.aosabook.org/en/sqlalchemy.html
• http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/7/19/sqlachemy-and-you/

Data Mining

• Linux system mining using Python

Data Analysis

Pandas

• A 10 min intro to Pandas
• http://manishamde.github.io/blog/2013/03/07/pandas-and-python-top-10/

Design Patterns

• Python Best Practice Patterns by Vladimir Keleshev

Concurrency Patterns

• Wasps Nest Pattern
• Wasp’s Nest: The Read-Copy-Update Pattern In Python

Distributed Systems

• http://architects.dzone.com/articles/gevent-zeromq

Python 2 vs 3

• Python 2 or 3 ?

Porting to Python 3

• http://python3porting.com/

Books

Free

• Some free books on Python
• Invent with Python
• Think Python
• Byte of Python
• Snake Wrangling for Kids
• Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Python
• Python programming on wikibooks
• http://readwrite.com/2011/03/25/python-is-an-increasingly-popu#awesm=~oalneJOKY2tp7U
• Dive Into Python 3

Paid

• Some list of paid books on python

Discussions

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5944863
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/92230/python-beyond-the-basics
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2573135/python-progression-path-from-apprentice-to-guru
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228181/zen-of-python
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/101268/hidden-features-of-python

Conferences and events

• Official PyCon website
• http://lanyrd.com/topics/python/
• http://lanyrd.com/topics/django/
• http://python.meetup.com/
• http://django.meetup.com/

Videos

• Guido Van Rossum on the history of Python
• PyVideo
• http://lanyrd.com/topics/python/video/
• http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/python
• Talks by Brandon Rhodes

Editors and IDE’s for Python programming

• Setting up Sublime Text for Python Development
• Sublime Text 2 Love by Kenneth Reitz
• Sublime Text 2 tips for Python and web developers

Miscellaneous

• Good to great Python reads
• How to Create Barcodes in Your PDFs with Python
• What are some good Python interview questions ?
• Python innards introduction