A Python tutorial originally written for the modding community of Firaxis' Civilization. Useful to beginners with little or no programming knowledge.

This site contains materials from a 13 week course for learning Python and CGI. Suited for self-study.

Short overview of some basics, for users with some programming knowledge.

By Fredrik Lundh. Official tutorial for Tkinter, standard Python interface to Tk GUI toolkit; widget configuration, styling; function/method bindings to widget events; documents all Tkinter widgets, classes. Formats: PDF, HTML.

By Jim Jackson, Kar-Han Tan. Wiki-based documentation project working toward analyzing the architectural aspects of python language via source code only.

Discusses both client-side and server-side Web programming.

Python programs can use minimal code to access, display, and update a database. This guide provides "links to relevant Python modules, documentation, and projects" concerning databases, as well as adding persistence to Python objects.

By David Mertz. Brief introduction to writing CGI programs, Python CGI module, formatting output, error logging/debugging.

A guide to application development using PyQt.

By Magnus Lie Hetland. Minimal, concise, general introduction to programming, via Python, moves very quickly. English, Italian, Polish, Japanese, Serbian, Korean.

By Magnus Lie Hetland. Minimal introduction for experienced programmers. Treats basics, OO programming, Jedi mind trick. English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish; German, Norwegian; Lithuanian, Polish, Russian; Japanese, Korean.

Excerpt from O'Reilly book: Learning Python.

By Mark Lutz, David Ascher. Samples from O'Reilly book. Has manipulating data structures, files, programs; internet programming; JPython, now Jython, Python implementation for the Java platform.

By Josh Cogliati. Evolving tutorial for absolute beginners. Covers many basic, some intermediate topics; many code samples, simple hands-on exercises. [Open Content, public domain]

By Danny Yoo. Visual guide to using IDLE, a simple interactive shell for Python programming. Each step of this tutorial has screenshots for absolute beginners. English, Dutch, German; Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese; Indonesian.

By Mark Lutz. O'Reilly book sample. Introduces Internet related topics: Zope (web publishing framework), HTMLgen (makes web pages from objects), Jython (Python for Java), XML processing, server pages, Windows web scripting extensions, restricted execution mode tools.

Offers tutorial and resources on Client side COM, Server side COM, in Powerpoint and HTML format.

Can the UML help Python developers? How about CP4E?

Preliminary tutorial, prepares absolute beginners for other tutorials. Walks reader through installing on Windows, using Integrated DeveLopment Environment (IDLE), writing a simple program.

An Interactive Instruction.

A user-maintained and contributed storehouse of pointers and tips on building web applications in Python.

Collaborative website built by ActiveState and O'Reilly, hosts user contributions; collection of recipes.

Official tutorial and references, including library/module usage, Macintosh libraries, language syntax, extending/embedding, and the Python/C API. Also links to off-site beginners' tutorials, HOWTOs, and many special interest topics.

New to programming? This page lists some places that can get you started quickly.

Introduction covering basics to get you started, many examples, humorous light touch.

Pointers to various helpful Python-related HOWTO documents.

Links, questions and answers in a categorized, searchable format.

Online. Also the search can be downloaded for mirroring and off-line use.

Shows how to write programs that use command-line options, read and write to pipes, access environment variables, handle interrupts, read from and write to files, create temporary files, write to system logs.

By Richard G. Baldwin. Separate lessons teach programming basics. Free online, fee download files.

By Simon Brunning. Thorough 'cheat sheet'; brief reminders for nearly each language aspect: syntax nuances; built-in features, statements, modules; basic, advanced types, operations; lexical entities, common development tools. For several Python versions; HTML, Zip, Windows Help, text.

Archives of current and past listserv discussions on a LOT of interesting topics. GREAT for researching problems.

Give overviews of resources associated with specific topics. Written by volunteers interested in making such resources easier for all to find. Topics: databases, scientific computing, Tkinter, Web programming, XML.

Introduction to Python, where to find it, how to install, and create a very simple script.

By Guido van Rossum. Large tutorial from Python's eloquent author.

How to use regular expressions in Python with the re module, a gentle introduction.

Python, wxGlade, MySQL/Python tutorials.

programming sockets with Python.

Python language quick reference (28 pp), Tkinter reference (84 pp), Python Imaging Library PIL quick reference (6 pp). Postscript and PDF formats available.

A documentation package in Windows HTML Help format. Contains the official Python documentation, FAQ, "IDLE Explained," Ping's pydoc, "Introduction to Tkinter," and the HOWTOs.

Official FAQ, searchable, maintained by community. Entries on programming, extending, and building Python; known bugs, using on varied operating systems, language design, real world use.

A collection of Python tutorials from resources around the Internet.

General guide to using CGI and other Web-related programming with Python.

A tutorial for python on Wikibooks. It is editable by anyone.

Introduces using Python for CGI applications. Has database access examples. Several parts. [Developer Shed]