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PyNewbie Tutorials

22nd July 2003

Rob Hudson is publishing a series of short Python tutorials explaining language features and standard modules as he teaches himself the language. Articles so far cover Sockets and making cryptograms using the random module.

Posted 22nd July 2003 at 4:20 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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