Python Materials

• Eric Raymond’s Perl vs Python
• Dennis Ritchie’s Perl vs Python
• Perl vs Python on regex matching
• John Shipman’s very helpful Quick Reference (not for beginners)
• Guido van Rossum’s Python style guide
• Python.org performance tips (speeding up your Python code)
• Guido van Rossum and Dave Goodger on documentation conventions
• Peter Norvig’s excellent Python/Lisp comparison (not for beginners, but fairly useful even if you don’t know a thing about Lisp)
• David Goodger’s “Code like a Pythonista” page (also not for beginners, but very readable).