Programming :: Python

(If you know a site that you think should be here, let me know.)

NOTE: This page was based on the "Python Start Page", and needs some serious cleaning up.

First stops

• Python home page
• Vaults of Parnassus
• Python Starship
• PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals)
• Python at SourceForge

Documentation

• Official documentation: Tutorial + Library reference + Language reference + Extending and embedding + Python C API + Macintosh reference
• Development version
• Download all documentation
• pydoc

Popular versions

• Python 2.3.3
• Python 2.2.3
• Python 2.1.3
• Python 2.0.1
• Python 1.6.1
• Python 1.5.2
• Jython (formerly JPython)
• MacPython

Commercial exits

• Pythonware
• ActiveState
• Archaeopteryx
• TheKompany
• ReportLab
• Orbtech
• Nuxeo
• HackerThreads (Python t-shirts)
• Zope Corp.
• Logilab

GUI :: Tkinter

• An introduction to Tkinter
• John Grayson's Python and Tkinter programming (book)
• Pmw (Python MegaWidgets)
• Tix
• Tkinter life preserver

GUI :: wxPython

• wxPython homepage
• Boa Constructor
• PythonCard
• wxPython Pit
• wxPython recent changes
• wxPython 2.5.1.5 migration guide
• wxStyledTextCtrl wiki
• More wxStyledText info

GUI :: other

• anygui
• Qt

• PyGTK FAQ
• How to get PyGTK running on Win32
• Port of GTK+ related libraries to win32

Internet

• The Circle (written in Python)
• Twisted

Internet :: web development

• Albatross
• Quixote (LinuxJournal article)
• Webware
• Zope
• CherryPy
• Spyce

Zope

• Zope Object Database Development Wiki
• ZODB & ZEO introduction (old version via Waybackmachine)
• ZODB/ZEO Programming Guide

IDEs and editors

• Pythonworks (commercial, free trial)
• Komodo (commercial)
• Archaeopteryx WingIDE (commercial)
• BlackAdder (commercial)
• IDLE (IDLE fork)
• Boa Constructor
• PythonWin
• PythonCard
• Python mode for Emacs
• pymacs
• Python & vim

Articles

• What's new in Python 2.3 (2.2, 2.1, 2.0)
• effbot guides
• Guido's essays
• Guido's style guide
• Guido's introduction to Python 2.2 classes
• Python warts

Online books and tutorials

• How to think like a computer scientist: Learning with Python
• Dive into Python
• Instant Hacking
• How to think like a computer scientist (with Python)
• Non-programmers tutorial for Python
• DevShed
• Text Processing in Python

Books

• O'Reilly books
• Reviews (by Ron Stephens)
• Python Standard Library
• Programming Python, 2nd edition
• Python & XML
• Core Python
• Learning Python
• Python Programming on Win32
• Python 2.1 Bible
• Python Cookbook

News sites

• Linux Today
• Byte
• ZDNet
• InfoWorld
• Newsforge
• Dr. Dobb's
• O'Reilly Network
• Linux Journal
• IBM Developerworks
• linux.com
• LinuxProgramming
• InformIT

Mailing lists and newsgroups

• python-list
• python-dev
• tutor list
• comp.lang.python
• comp.lang.python.announce

SIGs (special interest groups)

Code collections

• Python FAQTS
• Python Cookbook

Jobs

• Python Job Board
• Python JobMart

Weblogs and diaries

• pyblagg (Python blog aggregator)
• Python Blogs at Bloglines
• Planet Python

People

(I add these whenever I stumble across them on the Net, or (re)discover them in newsgroups or so. Currently highly incomplete.)

• Aaron Watters
• Alex Martelli
• Andrew Kuchling
• Eric Max Francis
• Gerrit Holl
• Guido van Rossum
• Irmen de Jong
• Jason Orendorff
• Martijn Faassen
• Michael Hudson
• Steve Holden

Graphics

• PIL
• PyOpenGL
• PyGame

Code checkers

• PyChecker
• PyLint

Conferences and stuff

• PyCon 2004 (selected papers)
• EuroPython 2003, 2002
• Python11
• Python10
• etc...

Jython

• Jython
• The story of Jython

Extending and embedding

• Writing C/C++ Python extensions without Microsoft Visual C++
• SWIG

Odds and ends:

• Awaretek
• The Pythonic Quarter (my old site)
• PyTextile (original version)
• MindWrapper (and a tutorial : Wrapper around wxPython
• Python scripting for .NET
• Python Apocrypha
• py2exe
• Tim Golden's Python Stuff