SDSU Python Wiki

Basic Sites

• Official Python language website http://www.python.org

• Python programming community site http://starship.python.net

• Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_programming_language

• Getting started http://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/

• Python Quick Reference http://bulba.sdsu.edu/python_quickref.html

Documentation

• Python Documentation http://docs.python.org/

• Python Library Reference Index http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/genindex.html

• Python Wiki http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Python

• Python Documentation Module (Command pydoc -g)

  1. Module doc http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pydoc.html

  2. pydoc tutorial http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/04/18/pydoc.html

• Python Quick Reference http://bulba.sdsu.edu/python_quickref.html

• Distributing Python packages http://guide.python-distribute.org/

Searchable Docs

• Search Official Python docs http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/pyhelp.cgi

• Python.faqts knowledge base http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/index.phtml/fid/199/

• Execute the command 'pydoc -g' for a search engine installed with Python

Books

• Overview of Python books http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBooks

• Core Python http://corepython.com Wesley Chun

• Learning Python http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lpython/ M. Lutz and D. Ascher

• Python in a Nutshell http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonian2/index.html A.Martelli

• Programming Python http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python3/index.html M. Lutz

• Python Cookbook http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythoncook2/index.html A. Martelli and D. Ascher

• Python Pocket Reference http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonpr3/index.html M. Lutz

• Python Essential Reference D. Beazley SAMS
• The Quick Python Book D. Harms and K. Mc Donald Manning

• Dive into Python http://diveintopython.org/

• Text Processing in Python http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/

• Python and Tkinter Programming J. E. Grayson Manning

• Data Structures and Algorithms (Python) http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus7/ Bruno Preiss

• Python Scripting for Computational Science http://folk.uio.no/hpl/scripting H. P. Langtangen

• Python Standard Library Frederick Lundh (lots of well-worked out well-documented examples illustrating library use)

Courses

• Google's Python intro http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/

• Beginner's Intro http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers For non-programmers

• Intro Course http://www.swc.scipy.org/

• Python Tutorial http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html Tutorial @ python.org

• Python Tutorial 2 http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/ Alan Gauld

• Python Tutorial 3 http://www.sthurlow.com/python

• Dive into Python http://www.diveintopython.org/toc/index.html

• List of tutorial links http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html Python Learning Foundation (PLF)

• Beginner's guide http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide python.org

• Effbot guide http://effbot.org/librarybook/ Website companion to Frederick Lundh's book

• Non programmer tutorial http://honors.montana.edu/~jjc/easytut/ John Cogliati,html,latex, pdf

• Non programmer tutorial http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer's_Tutorial_for_Python/Contents John Cogliati

• How to think like a computer scientist http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/ Downey, et al.

• Python in NLP http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html#linguistics PLF

• NLTK Tutorial http://nltk.sourceforge.net/lite/doc/en/ NLTK group Bird, et al.

• Advanced Python Tutorial http://systems.cs.uchicago.edu/~beazley/tutorial/beazley_advanced_python/advpy.pdf

Numerical and Scientific Computing

• Sci Py homepage http://www.scipy.org/ info about Numeric, Num Py, Sci Py

• Numeric package http://numeric.scipy.org/

• Numarray package http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/numarray reimplementation of Numeric

• Num Py, Sci Py http://www.scipy.org/more_about_SciPy

• Python in Science http://www.thinkware.se/cgi-bin/thinki.cgi/PythonInScience

Style, Tips, Topics

• Guido's style guide http://www.python.org/doc/essays/styleguide.html Guido van Rossum

• Python pitfalls http://zephyrfalcon.org/labs/python_pitfalls.html

• More Python pitfalls http://www.ferg.org/projects/python_gotchas.html

• Sorting in Python http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting Andrew Dalke/Raymond Hettinger

• Python optimization tips http://trific.ath.cx/resources/python/optimization/#about

• Loop optimization in Python http://www.python.org/doc/essays/list2str.html Guido van Rossum

• Script Optimization http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/python/fastpython.html Montanaro

• Python advantages http://xkcd.com/353/

• Python decorators http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=240808

FAQs

• What's Python? http://www.python.org/Help.html

• FAQS http://www.python.org/FAQ.html

• Search http://www.python.org/search

• Knowledge Base http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/index.phtml/fid/199/

Code

• Python Cookbook http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/

• Vaults of Parnassus http://www.vex.net/parnassus/

• PyPI packages http://www.python.org/pypi

• Microsoft Scripts (Python) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/python/default.mspx?mfr=true

Extensions

• C, C++ extensions

  1. Basic C Tutorial http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/ Good on software engineering basics

  2. Ad. Marshall's C Tutorial http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/ Good on language basics

  3. SWIG C, C++-Python interfacing tools http://www.swig.org/

  4. Boost.Python C++ Extension tools http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/

     • -- Note: This is installed in the Comp Ling Lab

  5. SIP Python C++ extension tool http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/sip/index.php/

  6. SCXX C++ wrappers for Python objects http://davidf.sjsoft.com/mirrors/mcmillan-inc/scxx.html

  7. PyCXX interface tools for Python C++ http://cxx.sourceforge.net/

• Fortran

  1. F2Py: Fortran to Python interface generator http://cens.ioc.ee/projects/f2py2e/

Magazines

• Python Journal http://pythonjournal.cognizor.com/

• Pyzine http://www.pyzine.com/

Newsgroups, Mailing Lists

• Python News Group comp.lang.python

• Tutor Digest tutor@python.org Beginner's mailing list

Pages

• Functional programming page http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/functional Andrew Kuchling

• Info introspection http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-pyint.html

• Python papers http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Articles_and_Reviews/ Google

How to ask questions

• The first thing to know is where to send questions: A great forum for Python beginners: tutor@python.org

• Provocative, readable intro stuff on programming How to ask smart questions

• The Art of Unix Programming

• The Jargon File Eric Raymond