Documentation for the Python programming language

Locally written documentation:

• A Python tutorial
• Python 2.5 quick reference
• Tkinter reference: a GUI for Python
• Python Imaging Library

Local PDF copies of the official Python documentation:

• Python Tutorial
• The Python language reference
• What's new in Python
• Idioms and anti-idioms in Python
• Functional programming in Python
• Documenting Python
• The Python/C API
• Installing Python modules
• Distributing Python modules
• Extending and embedding Python
• Regular expression HOWTO
• Unicode HOWTO
• HOWTO fetch Internet resources using urllib2
• HOWTO use Python in the web
• Socket programming in Python
• NumPy Reference: Numeric and array extensions to Python.
• SciPy Reference Guide: Scientific extensions that use NumPy.

These books should be available from the TCC Help Desk:

• Watters, Aaron; Guido van Rossum; and James C. Ahlstrom. Internet Programming With Python. M & T Books, 1996, paperback, includes CD-ROM. ISBN: 1558514848.
• Lutz, Mark. Programming Python (Nutshell Handbook). O'Reilly & Associates, 1996, paperback, includes CD-ROM. ISBN: 1565921976.
• Grayson, John E. Python and Tkinter programming. Manning, 2000, paperback. ISBN: 1884777813.

Good offsite links:

• www.python.org is the best place to start for most any of your Python needs.
• Slides for a Python talk by Mark Lutz.
• Read an interview with Mark Lutz for more reasons to use Python.

John Shipman, john@nmt.edu Last updated: 2009/10/08 21:47:33 UT URL: http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/lang/python/docs.html