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Python HOWTO Documents

Python HOWTOs are documents that cover a single, specific topic, and attempt to cover it fairly completely. Modelled on the Linux Documentation Project's HOWTO collection, this collection is an effort to foster documentation that's more detailed than the Python Library Reference.

• Advocacy:
  Discusses reasons to use Python, strategies for winning acceptance, facts and arguments you can use, and cases where you shouldn't try to suggest Python as the solution.

• Curses Programming with Python:
  An introduction to writing text-mode programs using Python and curses.

• Regular Expression HOWTO:
  An introduction to using regular expressions and the re module to process text.

• Socket Programming HOWTO, by Gordon McMillan:
  Sockets are used nearly everywhere, but are often misunderstood. This is a high-level overview of sockets, that doesn't cover all the fine points (there are a lot of them), but will give you enough background to begin using them decently.

• Sorting Mini-HOWTO, by Andrew Dalke:
  A little tutorial showing a half dozen ways to sort a list with the built-in sort() method.

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