Essential Python Reading List Here’s my essential Python reading list. I’ve tried to order the items so you can pause or stop reading at any point: at every stage you’ll have learned about as much possible about Python for the effort you’ve put in. The Zen of Python BeginnersGuide New to programming? Python is free and easy to learn if you know where to start! This guide will help you to get started quickly. Chinese Translation New to Python? Read BeginnersGuide/Overview for a short explanation of what Python is. How not to write Python code » Ikke’s blog Lately I’ve been reading some rather unclean Python code. Maybe this is mainly because the author(s) of the code had no in-depth knowledge of the Python language itself, the ‘platform’ delivered with cPython,… Here’s a list of some of the mistakes you should really try to avoid when writing Python code: Some days ago RealNitro pointed me at this list of essential Python readings. “Idiomatic Python” is a must-read, even for experienced Python developers. That’s about it for now, maybe I’ll add some more items to this list later on. If you have some other hints, comments!
Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Emacs - Jessica Hamrick I’ve been using Emacs () as my primary text editor for several years now. It takes some getting used to – the keyboard shortcuts are completely different from what you’re probably familiar with, e.g. Ctrl-C for copy and Ctrl-V for paste. Despite the somewhat steep initial learning curve, however, I find that Emacs is invaluable for rapid coding and for flexibly editing all different types of files in the same environment. I remember how overwhelming it was to figure out how to do anything when I first got started, so in this tutorial I’m going to aim to give you the basics to get started. Distutils-SIG Charter The Distutils-SIG exists to discuss the design, implementation, and maintenance of a suite of module distribution utilities for Python. These utilities are grouped in the 'distutils' package in Python. The goal of distutils is to make building, packaging, distributing, and installing Python modules, extensions, and applications painless and standardized.
TkInter Tkinter is Python's de-facto standard GUI (Graphical User Interface) package. It is a thin object-oriented layer on top of Tcl/Tk. Tkinter is not the only GuiProgramming toolkit for Python. It is however the most commonly used one. CameronLaird calls the yearly decision to keep TkInter "one of the minor traditions of the Python world." The Tkinter wiki: Building and installing Nsound — Nsound v0.8.2 documentation Binary installers In most cases, the best way to install Nsound on your system is by using an installable binary Python package for your operating system. Windows As of nsound-0.9.0, support for building with Vistual Studio 2010+ on 64-bits is now supported.
ctypes tutorial Note: The code samples in this tutorial uses doctest to make sure that they actually work. Since some code samples behave differently under Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X, they contain doctest directives in comments. Note: Quite some code samples references the ctypes c_int type. This type is an alias to the c_long type on 32-bit systems.