A collection of Python "Must Reads"

https://github.com/oussemos/pycrumbs/blob/master/pycrumbs.md

Beginner:

• http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers
• A crash course into Python
• An Introduction to List Comprehensions in Python

Moved to Python from other languages:

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Pyhton (It's open source, too: http://github.com/kennethreitz/python-guide/)

Python Style:

• PEP8: The Python Style Guide

Python Books:

• Learn Python the Hard Way
• Dive into Python 3
• A Byte of Python
• Porting to Python 3: An in-depth Guide

Python Classes:

• Intermediate and Advanced Software Carpentry in Python (2007)
• Google's Python class
• Introduction to Algorithms (with Python)

Python History:

• Guido Van Rossum's "Python History" blog (all of it!)
• Interfaces or Abstract Base Classes (2005)
• Of Python and Road Maps (or the lack thereof)

Another collection:

• http://resrc.io/tag/tag/python/

Python Setting UP:

• Python Ecosystem - An Introduction
• Bootstrapping a Python Virtual Environment
• Hitchhiker's Guide to Packaging

Posts:

• The Python yield keyword explained
• Python's super() considered super!
• Understanding Python Decorators
• What is a metaclass in Python?
• Metaclasses Demystified
• Try/Catch for validation or speed?
• Python (and Python C API): __new__ versus __init__
• Python "self" keyword
• Python and the Principle of Least Astonishment
• A Curious Course on Coroutines and Concurrency
• Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers
• Code like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python (2007)
• The entire Python Module of the week archive
  • Also see the book - "Python Standard Library by Example"
• (By me) Python Threads and the global interpreter lock
• (By me) Get with the program as context manager
• How to write a Lisp interpreter in Python
• Unicode in Python, Completely Demystified
• Unicode for Dummies - Just use UTF-8
• Debugging in Python
• How to handle multiple inheritance of ABCs that implement each others abstract methods
• AOSA: Python Packaging
• 10 Reasons Python Rocks for Research (And a Few Reasons it Doesn’t)
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
• How to use Linux epoll with Python
• Python beginner's Mistakes
• Command Line syntax: Some basic Concepts
• Be careful with exec and eval in Python
• Decorators make magic easy
• The detailed guide to "Timsort" (which Java adopted, FWIW)
• Notes on optimizing dictionaries
• Python Patterns - An Optimization Anecdote
• Python Performance Tips
• How-to guide for Python Descriptors
• Hidden Features of Python
• Python is Not Java (2004)
• Java is not Python, either
• Python Interfaces are not Java Interfaces