Friday, May 10, 2013

Python Useful Resources

With the world wide web becoming the best sorted resource to a programmers never ending need for referring online documentation and content its always useful to keep track of the sites which offer such great knowledge. So I will be posting links to the sites from which have provided me with help in learning Python.
They are not in any particular order and each one has something good to offer.

a. TutorialsPoint - Simple Easy Learning
b. Python's official online Documentation site
c. https://python-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/intro/learning.html

d. Python videos on talks @PyCon worldwide.
http://pyvideo.org/

e. Other Sources
http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python
http://www.learnpython.org/

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

The Zen of Python

The BDFL's (Benevolent Dictator For Life) guiding principles of Python designs are drafted into what is known as the Zen of Python by long time Pythoneer Tim Peters.


Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!