Tips and Tutorials

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• An advanced GUI library for Python - PyQT
  The Qt toolkit is a widely-used cross-platform GUI toolkit, available for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, and handheld platforms. QT has a well-structured, but flexible, object-oriented organization, clear d...
  
• Functional programming in Python, Part 3
  The Part 3 of the series continues the discussion by illustrating additional capabilities, like currying and other higher-order functions contained in the Xoltar Toolkit. Article includes code snipets...
  
• Functional programming in Python, Part 2
  This column continues the introduction to functional programming (FP) in Python. The introduction to different paradigms of program problem-solving demonstrates several intermediate and advanced FP co...
  
• Functional programming in Python
  Although users usually think of Python as a procedural and object-oriented language, it actually contains everything you need for a completely functional approach to programming. This article discusse...
  
• Charming Python: Text processing in Python for beginners
  Along with several other popular scripting languages, Python is an excellent tool for scanning and manipulating textual data. This article summarizes Python's text processing facilities for the progra...
  
• Five Minutes to a Python CGI
  This is a quick overview of Python script language. Dicussion includes comparison to other scripting languages, Using the Python CGI Module, debugging, and more. ...
  
• Writing CGI Programs in Python
  Python has a very extensive, well documented and portable module library that provides a large variety of useful functions. The Internet-related collection is particularly impressive, with modules to ...
  
• Charming Python: Parsing with the SimpleParse module
  Many parsing tools have been written for Python. This column discusses a high-level parsing language built on top of Python. SimpleParse provides an EBNF-style syntax on top of mxTextTools that can gr...
  
• Extending Python and Zope in C
  Extending Python in C is easy once you see how it all works, and an extension of Python is equally easy to package up for Zope. The hard part is wading through the different documentation sets in sear...
  
• Python for the PalmOS
  Pippy is a port of (a subset of) Python to the PalmOS. With Pippy, Python programmers can create custom applications to run on Palm devices, as well as use Pippy as an interactive environment directly...
  
• Mod_python and PSP Introduction
  Learn how to install and configure mod_python with Apache 2 so that you can use PSP. Learn the basics of PSP and how it can be used in web pages, with plenty of useful examples that are actually used...
  
• Python Squeezes the Web
  This 5-page tutorial describes how to grab remote web pages and process them locally in Python. Useful for parsing information off the web....
  
• Intro to PYX
  XML is a fairly simple format. It uses plain Unicode text rather than binary encoding, and all the structures are declared with predictable-looking tags. Nonetheless, there are still enough rules in t...
  
• How to use Python's xml_objectify
  This article presents the xml_objectify module. It describes how to use xml_objectify and the advantages of using this "Pythonic" module for working with XML documents as objects. ...
  
• Introduces the Python xml_pickle object
  As part of the ongoing quest to create a more seamless integration between XML and Python, this article presents the xml_pickle module. The author discusses the design goals and decisions that went in...
  
• xml_pickle and xml_objectify
  This column presents some of the changes to the author's previous module suite, utilities for high-level Python handling of XML documents, as well as some tips on advanced aspects of using and customi...
  
• XML tools for Python
  The first two installments of this column provided an overview of working with XML in Python. In the year since those initial writings, however, the state of XML tools for Python has advanced signific...
  
• The Python Web Services Developer, Part 2
  This is the beginning of a short series on creating a software repository system built on Web services and developed in the Python programming language. This article shows you the details of using the...
  
• XML Processing with Python
  This article illustrates the principle features of the Python language, and then examine the XML processing capabilities of Python....
  

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