Important technical documents
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Guido van Rossum's Python Style Guide: We should try to adhere to this! - Guide to introspection: The most fundamental skill to acquire when developing and using Python code
- About Python objects: There are some non-intuitive aspects to objects for programmers familiar with other OOP languages
- Common Python pitfalls: invaluable introductory programming reference
- Common Python "gotchas": invaluable introductory programming reference
- How not to write python code: A good set of notes about style and python design patterns
- Python warts (partially outdated, but look further down the article for relevant material)
- Scipy at Reddit: Articles and code involving scientific computing with scipy
- Python Scripting for computational science by Hans Petter Langtangen
- Text Processing in Python -- online book
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.python, comp.lang.python.announce
General Python links
- Dive Into Python: online book
- Informit.com: A variety of Python articles
- The Python Cookbook: online book
- Activestate: hosts a variety of Python training etc.
- Cornell Computational Methods course in Python (other code examples)
- Stack Overflow: A great forum for programming Q&A with experts, but has a large python following.