FAQs, Help, and Tutorials

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 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 Recipes
Collaborative website built by ActiveState and O'Reilly, hosts user contributions; collection of recipes.
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/

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. <small>(May 19, 2004)</small>
http://npt.cc.rsu.ru/user/wanderer/ODP/Python_for_Newbies.htm