The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python

by dsego • 12 years ago

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tdicola• 12 years ago

Nice! I remember when this was posted about a year ago and it's nice to see it's been steadily maintained since then. Great list of tools, etc. that are a must know for python users.

pdeuchler• 12 years ago

Always good to see this on the front page, and as a side note Kenneth is quite possibly one of the best OSS maintainers I've ever encountered. I made a tiny, pedantic edit a year or so ago and he treated my pull request like it was an entirely new chapter plumbing the depths of the GCC.

mdisraeli• 12 years ago

Useful, however there's a serious element lacking: "Don't Panic" in large, friendly letters ;)

ersii• 12 years ago

The project is open and I feel confident they'd take a merge/pull request for that.. :-) (I know that Kenneth usually has humor and the spirit goes along well with your suggestion. ;-) ). Feel free to swing by https://github.com/kennethreitz/python-guide and have a look in any case.

dmoney• 12 years ago

From the "choosing an interpreter" section:

Also use Python 2.7.x if you’re starting to work on a new Python module.

Is this a generally accepted guideline? I'd have thought Python 3 would have caught on by now.

hcarvalhoalves• 12 years ago

It's easy to write Python 3 compatible code with 2.7, you can import most things from __future__. You lose some cool features though.

pekk• 12 years ago

It isn't, but it is the opinion of the people who run this project.

SoftwareMaven• 12 years ago

My thoughts exactly. We use python extensively, so have a large code base laying around, and, even with that, I chose Python 3 for the new project I recently started since it is fairly independent.

I'd word this more like "projects should use Python 3 unless you have an existing reason (a core library, existing code base, etc) to stay on 2.7". A year ago, I couldn't have said this. Six months ago, the possibility of missing, critical libraries was still very large, but, today, it's a reasonable approach (IMO, of course :).

anon4• 12 years ago

The other bizarre to me part is how Python 2 is called "Today" and Python 3 "The future". Shouldn't they be "Yesterday" and "Today" respectively? Or maybe "The snakes of yesteryear" and "The contemporary Monty".

olivierlacan• 12 years ago

Most of the guide was written two years ago: https://github.com/kennethreitz/python-guide

aitoehigie2• 12 years ago

Is there a .pdf, .mobi or .epub anywhere? Reading this online might not make economic sense.

aitoehigie2• 12 years ago

Spoke too soon. Here's the link to the pdf https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/python-guide/latest/python...

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python

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