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Python best practices guidebook, written for humans.
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PreviewHitchhiker's Guide to Python
Python Best Practices Guidebook
→ Read the free guide at: docs.python-guide.org <https://docs.python-guide.org>_
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Work in progress. If you'd like to help, please do. There's a lot of work to be done.
This guide is currently under heavy development. This opinionated guide exists to provide both novice and expert Python developers a best practice handbook to the installation, configuration, and usage of Python on a daily basis.
Topics include:
- Platform and version-specific installations
- Py2app, Py2exe, bbfreeze, pyInstaller
- Pip
- Numpy, scipy, statpy, pyplot, matplotlib
- Virtualenv
- Fabric
- Exhaustive module recommendations, grouped by topic/purpose
- Which libraries to use for what
- Server configurations & tools for various web frameworks
- Documentation: writing it
- Testing: Jenkins & tox guides
- How to easily interface
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If you aren't fond of reading reStructuredText, there is an
almost up-to-date HTML version at docs.python-guide.org <https://docs.python-guide.org>_.