Python Resources

This is a collection of Python Resources. See Python Notes

The Official Python Documentation

• 3 Documentation
• The Python Standard Library — Python 3 documentation
• The Python Language Reference — Python 3 documentation
• Python Setup and Usage — Python 3 documentation
• The Python Tutorial — Python 3 documentation

Books

• Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne, Robert Dondero: Introduction to Programming in Python: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Pearson, 2015 The linked companion website contains excerpts and lots of examples:

  • Elements of Programming
  • Functions and Modules
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Algorithms and Data Structures

  I’ve compiled the source code examples in the repo htw-imi-info3/python-programming-exercises - this site contains an overview: Python Programs in the Textbook

• Al Sweigart’s Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is free to read under a Creative Commons license.

  • The source code is available here: asweigart/automateboringstuff: This package installs the modules used in “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python”, 2nd Edition.

• https://nostarch.com/impracticalpythonprojects

Source Code Repos

at htw-imi-info3

• htw-imi-info3/learn-python-with-tests
• htw-imi-info3/python-programming-exercises
• Compiled Examples from Sedgewick, Wayne and Dondero: htw-imi-info3/programming-in-python-code-examples

Other interesting stuff & Libraries

Scrapy

• Scrapy | A Fast and Powerful Scraping and Web Crawling Framework
• Scrapy 2.5 documentation — Scrapy 2.5.1 documentation
• Scrapy Tutorial — Scrapy 2.5.1 documentation

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

• if you haven’t watched it, you should do so: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=monty+python%27s+flying+circus