Python HOWTOs

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. Some of these HOWTOs can be found online here.

• Python Advocacy HOWTO
  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.

• Idioms and Anti-Idioms in Python, by Moshe Zadka
  This document can be considered a companion to the tutorial. It shows how to use Python, and even more importantly, how not to use Python.

• Unicode HOWTO
  This HOWTO discusses Python's support for Unicode, and explains various problems that people commonly encounter when trying to work with Unicode.

• HOWTO Fetch Internet Resources Using urllib2
  This HOWTO discusses Python's support for Unicode, and explains various problems that people commonly encounter when trying to work with Unicode.