Python HOWTOs

Python HOWTOs are documents that cover a specific topic in-depth. Modeled 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.

General:

• Annotations Best Practices

• Argparse Tutorial

• Descriptor Guide

• Enum HOWTO

• Functional Programming HOWTO

• An introduction to the ipaddress module

• Logging HOWTO

• Logging Cookbook

• Regular Expression HOWTO

• Sorting Techniques

• Unicode HOWTO

• HOWTO Fetch Internet Resources Using The urllib Package

Advanced development:

• Curses Programming with Python

• Isolating Extension Modules

• The Python 2.3 Method Resolution Order

• Socket Programming HOWTO

• Porting Extension Modules to Python 3

Debugging and profiling:

• Debugging C API extensions and CPython Internals with GDB

• Instrumenting CPython with DTrace and SystemTap

• Python support for the Linux perf profiler