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Python-by-example. “This guide aims to show examples of use of all Python Library Reference functions, methods and classes”, thus addressing my number one complaint about Python’s standard library documentation.

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6 comments

  1. That is nice :)

    philhassey - 2nd April 2008 16:35 - #

  2. What's wrong with the effbot guide? It seems to be exactly the same thing.

    Simon Brunning - 2nd April 2008 16:55 - #

  3. The only problem with the effbot guide is that for some reason I keep on forgetting it exists. Thanks for the reminder.

    Simon Willison - 2nd April 2008 20:03 - #

  4. Wow... I just bitched about this topic on my blog a few weeks ago.

    It seems silly that one or both of those sites just donate their documentation directly to the Python project so they can be hosted right with the official docs, rather than just floating out there on the interweb... I can totally predict I'll forget about both of them the next time I'm looking stuff up.

    -Russ

    Russ - 3rd April 2008 00:07 - #

  5. Yeah, because we all know the whole point of the web is that everything needs to be hosted on a single site. Actually linking from one site to another is most likely an unsolvable problem.

    Fredrik - 4th April 2008 14:11 - #

  6. (also see http://effbot.org/zone/idea-seealso.htm. note the date. guess you could do the same with Atom these days, if anyone over at python.org only cared.)

    (Simon, why does your XHTML validator say that the above link is not a valid value for the href attribute in an A element, btw?)

    Fredrik - 4th April 2008 14:14 - #

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