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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.
A Course in Python/CGI
This site contains materials from a 13 week course for learning Python and CGI. Suited for self-study.
A Quick Tour of Python
Short overview of some basics, for users with some programming knowledge.
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 al…
Architecture of Python
By Jim Jackson, Kar-Han Tan. Wiki-based documentation project working toward analyzing the architectural aspects of python language via source code only.
Cameron Laird on Python and the Web
Discusses both client-side and server-side Web programming.
Database Topic Guide
Python programs can use minimal code to access, display, and update a database. This guide provides "links to relevant Python modules, documentation, and projects" conce…
Five Minutes to a Python CGI
By David Mertz. Brief introduction to writing CGI programs, Python CGI module, formatting output, error logging/debugging.
Instant Hacking
By Magnus Lie Hetland. Minimal, concise, general introduction to programming, via Python, moves very quickly. English, Italian, Polish, Japanese, Serbian, Korean.
Instant Python
By Magnus Lie Hetland. Minimal introduction for experienced programmers. Treats basics, OO programming, Jedi mind trick. English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish; German, Norw…
JPython: The Felicitous Union of Python and Java
Excerpt from O'Reilly book: Learning Python.
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 …
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]
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, Germ…
Programming Crash Course
This tutorial was written for the absolute beginner. It teaches how to program a computer the quick way.
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 proce…
Python and COM
Offers tutorial and resources on Client side COM, Server side COM, in Powerpoint and HTML format.
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…
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