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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python — a free, opinionated best-practices guidebook about installing, configuring and using Python day to day.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python — a free, opinionated best-practices guidebook about installing, configuring and using Python day to day.Is this a book I read online, or a package I install into my project?It's a guidebook, not a package: the repo holds the reStructuredText source, and the guide itself is a free HTML site at docs.python-guide.org. There is nothing to install.
It's a guidebook, not a package: the repo holds the reStructuredText source, and the guide itself is a free HTML site at docs.python-guide.org. There is nothing to install.Is the book finished, or still being worked on?By its own description it's a work in progress under heavy development, with a lot left to do, and the online HTML version is only 'almost up-to-date' next to the source.
By its own description it's a work in progress under heavy development, with a lot left to do, and the online HTML version is only 'almost up-to-date' next to the source.Is it written for beginners or for experienced Python developers?Both: the README explicitly targets novice and expert Python developers as its audience.
Both: the README explicitly targets novice and expert Python developers as its audience.Why read this instead of the official Python docs?The official docs explain how the language works; this guide is 'written for humans' and takes sides — it tells you which libraries to use for what and walks through the setup and daily-workflow choices the docs leave open.
The official docs explain how the language works; this guide is 'written for humans' and takes sides — it tells you which libraries to use for what and walks through the setup and daily-workflow choices the docs leave open.Does it teach Git and version control?Only a small piece: the topics list includes a short guide on easily interfacing hg (Mercurial) from git. Version control itself is not a subject of the book.
Only a small piece: the topics list includes a short guide on easily interfacing hg (Mercurial) from git. Version control itself is not a subject of the book.Is this the right first tutorial for learning Python from zero?It's positioned as a best-practices handbook for installing, configuring and using Python in daily work — tooling, library picks, testing — rather than a step-by-step language tutorial for learning the language from scratch.
It's positioned as a best-practices handbook for installing, configuring and using Python in daily work — tooling, library picks, testing — rather than a step-by-step language tutorial for learning the language from scratch.What are similar projects?500lines, every-programmer-should-know, python-cheatsheet, rust-learning, awesome-modern-cpp, the-way-to-go_ZH_CN, book, guide
500lines, every-programmer-should-know, python-cheatsheet, rust-learning, awesome-modern-cpp, the-way-to-go_ZH_CN, book, guideWhich topics is it in?batchfile, handbook, packaging, pip, software-engineering, english, best-practices, programming, book, reference, beginner-friendly, testing
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