Python Resources

Online Reference

• Python.org
• Python 2.5.2 Docs
• Documentation Index
• Library Reference
• Built-in Types, Functions & Modules
• Built-in Types
• Mapping Types: dict
• Sequence Types: str, list, tuple
• Global Module Index
• Module: datetime
• Python Tutorial
• Language Overview
• Reference Manual
• Syntax described in modified BNF

Language Resources

• ASPN: Python Cookbook
• Dates and Times: PLEAC
• Faqts Knowledge Base: Python
• PLEAC: Python
• Solutions of Perl Cookbook in Python
• Python 2.4 Quick Reference
• Python Programming
• Wikibooks
• What's New in Python 2.5
• What's New in Python 2.6

Books & Courses

• Dive Into Python *
• by Mark Pilgrim; Apress, 2004
• For experienced programmers
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
• Learning with Python, 2nd Edition
• Python-based introduction to programming
• Learning Python, 3rd Ed.
• by Mark Lutz; O'Reilly, 2007
• For inexperienced programmers
• Python Cookbook, 2nd Ed.
• by Martelli, Ravenscroft & Ascher; O'Reilly, 2005
• Python Course in Bioinformatics
• Pasteur Institute
• Python in a Nutshell, 2nd Ed.
• by Alex Martelli; O'Reilly, 2006

Blogs

• All Things Pythonic
• Guido van Rossum
• Neopythonic
• Guido van Rossum
• Planet Python

IDEs

• Komodo
• PyDev
• Eclipse plugin
• Wingware Python IDE

Libraries

• Matplotlib
• psycopg
• Pyke: inference engine
• SciPy.org
• Sphinx
• Used by Django Project
• SQLAlchemy
• wxPython

XML

• 4Suite
• XML/XSLT libraries
• 4Suite Documentation Index
• 4Suite Users' Manual
• Beautiful Soup
• HTML/XML parser
• Cover Pages: XML & Python
• libxml2 & libxslt bindings
• lxml
• Pyana
• Interface with Xalan XSLT
• Python and XML Processing
• Sourceforge Topics
• Python/XML How To
• PythonXml
• Wiki page
• XML-SIG Mailing List
• XML Processing in Python