Hitchhiker's Guide to Python

Kenneth Reitz is the product owner of Python at Heroku and a member of the Python Software Foundation. Kenneth focuses on software development, photography, and music production. He is well known for his many open source projects, specifically Requests: HTTP for Humans.

Tanya Schlusser is currently an independent consultant who uses data to drive strategic decisions, with over two decades of experience in a half dozen languages. She is an active member of the Chicago Python User s Group, Chicago s PyLadies, and has delivered over 1000 hours of data science training to students and industry analysts.

Getting Started
Chapter 1Picking an Interpreter
The State of Python 2 Versus Python 3
Recommendations
So…3?
Implementations
Chapter 2Properly Installing Python
Installing Python on Mac OS X
Installing Python on Linux
Installing Python on Windows
Commercial Python Redistributions
Chapter 3Your Development Environment
Text Editors
IDEs
Enhanced Interactive Tools
Isolation Tools
Getting Down to Business
Chapter 4Writing Great Code
Code Style
Structuring Your Project
Testing Your Code
Documentation
Logging
Choosing a License
Chapter 5Reading Great Code
Common Features
HowDoI
Diamond
Tablib
Requests
Werkzeug
Flask
Chapter 6Shipping Great Code
Useful Vocabulary and Concepts
Packaging Your Code
Freezing Your Code
Packaging for Linux-Built Distributions
Executable ZIP Files
Scenario Guide
Chapter 7User Interaction
Jupyter Notebooks
Command-Line Applications
GUI Applications
Web Applications
Chapter 8Code Management and Improvement
Continuous Integration
System Administration
Speed
Chapter 9Software Interfaces
Web Clients
Data Serialization
Distributed Systems
Cryptography
Chapter 10Data Manipulation
Scientific Applications
Text Manipulation and Text Mining
Chapter 11Data Persistence
Structured Files
Database Libraries
Appendix Additional Notes
Python’s Community
Learning Python
Documentation
News