Python Programming Subjects and Links

Info, Intros, Idioms

python idioms (code like a pythonista)

more useful idioms

PEP 8 - style guide

Variations

Sage Notebook - mathy python

Jython - let python call or be called by java objects.

Misc Packages

These are (potentially) useful and interesting projects going on. Many more are out there!

• aima - code for norvig's AI book
• beautiful soup - use it to parse html, xml
• complex algorithm solvers, listed
• fxt - low level algorithms, math
• matplotlib - for creating graphs n charts
• myro - python robots
• network x - graph theory and visualization
• prolog in python
• pygame - python game development
• pylib - testing, distributed code, greenlets, +more
• reasonable python - logic
• rur-ple - robot simulator
• simpy - for simulations, as described here and here
• vpython - quickly do 3d modeling in code

Misc Authors

drbeat.li

Downloads

There are 3 ways (at least) to get python running on Windows. Read this post for advice.

1. ActiveState distro (for windows)
2. 2.5.2 for Windows, Mac, & Linux with
   Python extensions for Windows
3. Cygwin unix environment on Windows

Writing & Essays

compared to other languages

on scripting, by Ousterhout

on software at NASA

HOWTO

debugging

tkinter

unicode

Web programming

Didn't take off in python the way it did in perl, and later, PHP. Nonetheless, it is a viable option, and offers many advantages.

• web.py - barebones web server/app framework
• empy - templating package
• about web stats
• beautiful soup - parse html, xml
• prince - not python, create printed page from html

Platform specific

applescript with python

Learning

many computing and science video lectures

99 prolog problems done in python (based on this)

strategy game programming