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• Python Documentation Index - Official tutorial and references, including library/module usage, Macintosh libraries, language syntax, extending/embedding, and the Python/C API. Also links to off-site beginners' tutorials, HOWTOs, and many special interest topics.

  About.com: Python Includes articles on simple script solutions, database management, web development, network protocols, and other advanced topics. http://python.about.com/

  A Beginner's Python Tutorial A Python tutorial originally written for the modding community of Firaxis' Civilization. Useful to beginners with little or no programming knowledge. http://www.sthurlow.com/python/

  Cameron Laird on Python and the Web Discusses both client-side and server-side Web programming. http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.python/web_python.html

  Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python A tutorial that teaches common Python programming idioms used by experienced programmers, but may not be obvious to newcomers. http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html

  A Course in Python/CGI This site contains materials from a 13 week course for learning Python and CGI. Suited for self-study. http://www.upriss.org.uk/python/PythonCourse.html

  Five Minutes to a Python CGI By David Mertz. Brief introduction to writing CGI programs, Python CGI module, formatting output, error logging/debugging. http://www.ddj.com/184412536

  Instant Hacking By Magnus Lie Hetland. Minimal, concise, general introduction to programming, via Python, moves very quickly. English, Italian, Polish, Japanese, Serbian, Korean. http://hetland.org/writing/instant-hacking.html

  Instant Python By Magnus Lie Hetland. Minimal introduction for experienced programmers. Treats basics, OO programming, Jedi mind trick. English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish; German, Norwegian; Lithuanian, Polish, Russian; Japanese, Korean. http://hetland.org/writing/instant-python.html

  An Introduction to Tkinter By Fredrik Lundh. Official tutorial for Tkinter, standard Python interface to Tk GUI toolkit; widget configuration, styling; function/method bindings to widget events; documents all Tkinter widgets, classes. Formats: PDF, HTML. http://www.pythonware.com/library/an-introduction-to-tkinter.htm

  JPython: The Felicitous Union of Python and Java Excerpt from O'Reilly book: Learning Python. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lpython/chapter/ch10_fel.html

  Learning Python By Mark Lutz, David Ascher. Samples from O'Reilly book. Has manipulating data structures, files, programs; internet programming; JPython, now Jython, Python implementation for the Java platform. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lpython/chapter/

  Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python By Josh Cogliati. Evolving tutorial for absolute beginners. Covers many basic, some intermediate topics; many code samples, simple hands-on exercises. [Open Content, public domain] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer%27s_Tutorial_for_Python/Contents

  One Day of IDLE Toying By Danny Yoo. Visual guide to using IDLE, a simple interactive shell for Python programming. Each step of this tutorial has screenshots for absolute beginners. English, Dutch, German; Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese; Indonesian. http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/idle_intro/

  Printable Python Quick Reference Card Different PDF versions (A4, US Letter) of a very dense quick reference card for the Python language and some of its main libraries. http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/pointal/python/pqrc/

  Programming Crash Course This tutorial was written for the absolute beginner. It teaches how to program a computer the quick way. http://programming-crash-course.com

  Programming Python, 2nd Edition By Mark Lutz. O'Reilly book sample. Introduces Internet related topics: Zope (web publishing framework), HTMLgen (makes web pages from objects), Jython (Python for Java), XML processing, server pages, Windows web scripting extensions, restricted execution mode tools. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python2/chapter/ch15.html

  Python and UML Can the UML help Python developers? How about CP4E? http://www.objectsbydesign.com/projects/python_uml.html

  Python Babysteps Tutorial Preliminary tutorial, prepares absolute beginners for other tutorials. Walks reader through installing on Windows, using Integrated DeveLopment Environment (IDLE), writing a simple program. http://www.coolnamehere.com/geekery/python/pythontut.html

  Python CGI An Interactive Instruction. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lab2q/

  Python Cookbook Collaborative website built by ActiveState and O'Reilly, hosts user contributions; collection of recipes. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/

  Python Database Programming Programs can use minimal code to access, display, and update a database. This guide provides "links to relevant Python modules, documentation, and projects" concerning databases, as well as adding persistence to Python objects. http://wiki.python.org/moin/DatabaseProgramming/

  Python for Beginners New to programming? This page lists some places that can get you started quickly. http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide

  Python HOWTO Documents Pointers to various helpful Python-related HOWTO documents. http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/

  Python Idioms and Efficiency A guide to Python programming idioms, and suggestions for writing more elegant Python programs. http://jaynes.colorado.edu/PythonIdioms.html

  Python Knowledge Base Links, questions and answers in a categorized, searchable format. http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/index.phtml/fid/199/

  Python Library Reference Search Online. Also the search can be downloaded for mirroring and off-line use. http://zvon.org/other/python/PHP/search.php

  Python Programming for Beginners Shows how to write programs that use command-line options, read and write to pipes, access environment variables, handle interrupts, read from and write to files, create temporary files, write to system logs. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3946

  Python Programming Tutorial By Richard G. Baldwin. Separate lessons teach programming basics. Free online, fee download files. http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocpyth.htm

  Python Quick Reference By Simon Brunning. Thorough 'cheat sheet'; brief reminders for nearly each language aspect: syntax nuances; built-in features, statements, modules; basic, advanced types, operations; lexical entities, common development tools. For several Python versions; HTML, Zip, Windows Help, text. http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/python/PQR.html

  Python SIGs Archives of current and past listserv discussions on a LOT of interesting topics. GREAT for researching problems. http://www.python.org/community/sigs/

  Python Tutorial Introduction to Python, where to find it, how to install, and create a very simple script. http://www.mtdev.com/2002/08/python-tutorial

  A Quick Tour of Python Short overview of some basics, for users with some programming knowledge. http://stsdas.stsci.edu/pyraf/python_quick_tour.html

  Regular Expression HOWTO How to use regular expressions in Python with the re module, a gentle introduction. http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/regex.html

  Serpia, Python matters A collection of Python-related tutorials. http://www.serpia.org/

  Socket Programming HOWTO Help on programming sockets with Python. http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/sockets/sockets.html

  TCC Publications: Programming Languages Python language quick reference (28 pp), Tkinter reference (84 pp), Python Imaging Library PIL quick reference (6 pp). Postscript and PDF formats available. http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/lang.html

  Tutorialized.com - Free Python tutorials A collection of Python tutorials from resources around the Internet. http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Python/1

  Wikibooks Programming Python A tutorial for python on Wikibooks. It is editable by anyone. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Python

  Writing CGI Programs in Python Introduces using Python for CGI applications. Has database access examples. Several parts. [Developer Shed] http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/Writing-CGI-Programs-in-Python/

  Python for Newbies Introduction covering basics to get you started, many examples, humorous light touch. (May 19, 2004) http://npt.cc.rsu.ru/user/wanderer/ODP/Python_for_Newbies.htm