Learn-Python

Python is powerful... and fast;

plays well with others;

runs everywhere;

is friendly & easy to learn;

is Open.

These are some of the reasons people who use Python would rather not use anything else.

Python For Beginners:

Welcome! Are you completely new to programming? If not then we presume you will be looking for information about why and how to get started with Python. Fortunately an experienced programmer in any programming language (whatever it may be) can pick up Python very quickly. It's also easy for beginners to use and learn, so jump in!

Installing Installing Python is generally easy, and nowadays many Linux and UNIX distributions include a recent Python. Even some Windows computers (notably those from HP) now come with Python already installed. If you do need to install Python and aren't confident about the task you can find a few notes on the BeginnersGuide/Download wiki page, but installation is unremarkable on most platforms.

Learning Before getting started, you may want to find out which IDEs and text editors are tailored to make Python editing easy, browse the list of introductory books, or look at code samples that you might find helpful.

There is a list of tutorials suitable for experienced programmers on the BeginnersGuide/Tutorials page. There is also a list of resources in other languages which might be useful if English is not your first language.

The online documentation is your first port of call for definitive information. There is a fairly brief tutorial that gives you basic information about the language and gets you started. You can follow this by looking at the library reference for a full description of Python's many libraries and the language reference for a complete (though somewhat dry) explanation of Python's syntax. If you are looking for common Python recipes and patterns, you can browse the ActiveState Python Cookbook

"Python is fast enough for our site and allows us to produce maintainable features in record times, with a minimum of developers," said Cuong Do, Software Architect, YouTube.com.

"Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we're looking for more people with skills in this language." said Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google, Inc.

"I have the students learn Python in our undergraduate and graduate Semantic Web courses. Why? Because basically there's nothing else with the flexibility and as many web libraries," said Prof. James A. Hendler., University of Maryland.

References:

New to Programing: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers

Install Python: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Download

IDEs: http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments

Text Editors: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors

Introductory Books: http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntroductoryBooks

Code Samples: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Examples

Beginners Guide/Tutorials: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers

Resources in other Languages: https://www.python.org/doc/nonenglish/

Online Documentation: http://docs.python.org/

Brief Tutorial: http://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/

Library Reference: http://docs.python.org/3/library/