Python HOWTO Documents

Python HOWTOs are documents that cover a single, specific topic, and attempt cover it fairly completely. Modelled on the Linux Documentation Project's HOWTO collection, this collection is an effort to foster documentation that's more detailed than the Python Library Reference. Why not write a HOWTO of your own?

HOWTOs are available in several formats: PostScript, PDF, DVI, plain ASCII, and bundled HTML files. Some HOWTOs are only available in HTML form; a listing of HTML-only HOWTOs is available.

• Advocacy:
  Discusses reasons to use Python, strategies for winning acceptance, facts and arguments you can use, and cases where you shouldn't try to suggest Python as the solution.

• Bobo and Medusa, by Richard Jones:
  Demonstrates how to install the Bobo WWW object publishing system on either a Win32 or UNIX system.

• Curses Programming with Python:
  An introduction to writing text-mode programs using Python and curses.

• Editor Configuration for Python, by Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel:
  Describes how to configure your favorite editor for writing Python code.

• Restricted Execution (rexec) HOWTO:
  A guide to Python's restricted execution features, which allow running untrusted code inside a "cage" or "sandbox" where it can't damage the system.

• Regular Expression HOWTO:
  An introduction to using regular expressions and the re module to process text.

• regex-to-re HOWTO:
  Discusses how to convert Python code that uses the regex module to the newer and fancier re module.

• Socket Programming HOWTO, by Gordon McMillan:
  Sockets are used nearly everywhere, but are often misunderstood. This is a high-level overview of sockets, that doesn't cover all the fine points (there are a lot of them), but will give you enough background to begin using them decently.

• Sorting Mini-HOWTO, by Andrew Dalke:
  A little tutorial showing a half dozen ways to sort a list with the built-in sort() method.

• XML HOWTO:
  Discusses XML processing with Python.