Hitchhiker's Guide to Python

Python Best Practices Guidebook

Work in progress. If you'd like to help, please do. There's a lot of work to be done.

This guide is currently under heavy development. This opinionated guide exists to provide both novice and expert Python developers a best-practice handbook to the installation, configuration, and usage of Python on a daily basis.

Topics include:

• Platform/version specific installations
• Py2app, Py2exe, bbfreeze, pyInstaller
• Pip / virtualenv
• Documentation. Writing it.
• server configurations / tools for various web frameworks
• fabric
• exhaustive module recommendations, grouped by topic/purpose
• Testing. Jenkins + tox guides.
• How to interface w/ hg from git easily
• what libraries to use for what

If you are not fond of reading reStructuredText, there is an almost up-to-date HTML version at docs.python-guide.org.