The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python!

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This handcrafted guide exists to provide both novice and expert Pythondevelopers a best practice handbook to the installation, configuration, andusage of Python on a daily basis.

This guide is opinionated in a way that is almost, but not quite, entirelyunlike Python’s official documentation. You won’t find a list of every Python web frameworkavailable here. Rather, you’ll find a nice concise list of highly recommendedoptions.

Note

Let’s get started! But first, let’s make sure you know where your towel is.

New to Python? Let’s properly setup up your Python environment:

• • Properly Install Python on your system
    • Installing Python 3 on Mac OS X
    • Installing Python 3 on Linux
    • Installing Python 2 on Windows
  • Pipenv & Virtual Environments

Python Development Environments

This part of the guide focuses on the Python development environment,and the best-practice tools that are available for writing Python code.

• Pipenv & Virtual Environments

This part of the guide focuses on the best-practices for writing Python code.

• Code Style
• Documentation
• Logging
• Choosing a License

Scenario Guide for Python Applications

• Network Applications
• HTML Scraping
• GUI Applications
• Networking
• Continuous Integration
• Image Manipulation
• XML parsing
• Cryptography
• Interfacing with C/C++ Libraries

This part of the guide focuses on deploying your Python code.

• • Freezing Your Code

Additional Notes

This part of the guide, which is mostly prose, begins with somebackground information about Python, and then focuses on next steps.

• Introduction
• Learning Python
• News

Note

Notes defined within all diatonic and chromatic musical scales have beenintentionally excluded from this list of additional notes. Additionally,this note.

• License