Learning Python - Collection of Resources and Links

Beginner:
BeginnersGuide
BeginnersGuide/Download
BeginnersGuide/Overview
HowToEditPythonCode
BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers
BeginnersGuide/Programmers
How do I Run a Program Under Windows
PythonEditors
BeginnersGuide/Programmers (Cpp2Python.pdf)
Good Presentation by a C guy on Python features


Blogs:
Dorai's blog post on Learning Python

CookBooks:


BeginnersGuide/Programmers/SimpleExamples
Python Snippets and Recipes
Python by Example
Common programming tasks in Python
Pythonic File Searches


Using Pythonic Idioms and Style:
Definition of "Pythonic" here
Presentations:
How to Write Pythonic" code by Christopher Arndt
Presentation on "Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python" by David Goodger
Presentation on "Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python" (Crunchy Remix) by Jeff Hinrich 
How to produce slides like above using Python tools

Style Guide for Python Code

My blog on Exploring the Python standard library source code

Books:
IntroductoryBooks
Python books
How to think like a computer scientist with Python
Bruce Eckel's community contributed book: Python 3 - Patterns & Idioms

Version Issues:
Python2orPython3
What's New in Python 3.0
What's New in Python 2.6
What's New in Python 2.7
Moving from Python 2 to Python3 (PDF)
Porting Code to Python 3 with 2to3
Case Study: Porting chardet to Python 3

Learning Resources:
Installing Python

MultiMedia:
Video on "Head First into Python 3"
5-minute videos on Python Capability
ShowMeDo Screencast of Python 2.5 Development on XP
Audio/Visual Talks on Python
Introduction to Computer Science and Programming (videos from MIT course)
Podcast Python411

Python3:
"What an IronPython user should know about Python 3"

Python 3 focused version of Dive Into Python
Teaching programming with Python 3

Python 3.1:
Setup
Documentation

Python2.x:

Python Tutorial
Dive Into Python
A Byte of Python
Instant Python
Download Thinking in Python (Old) by Bruce Eckel here
Python for Java programmers


Moving to Python From Other Languages
Python is not Java


MovingToPythonFromPerl
Practice Problems for Python


Reference:
Official Python website
Python Wiki
Python 2.7 FAQ
Python 2.7 Windows FAQ
Python Quick Reference
Python Language Reference manual 
Python's Standard Library Reference manual
Module Index of the Python docs
Python's reply to Perl's CPAN: Python Package Index (PYPI)
Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter
Python/C API Reference Manual

See Also:
Eric S. Raymond article on moving to Python: 'Why Python?"

MediaPacker - Utility to help pack your DVDs and CDs to the brim

Media Packer is meant to solve the following problems.
1) Allow good-fit packing of DVDs, CDs with given set of directories/files.
2) Intention is to semi-automate (i.e. provide suggestions to users) or fully automate the process of packing backup media such as DVD, CDs.
3) To be developed in Python for portability and ease-of-extension

InProgress:
1) Display media space occupied by a folder structure (files and directories).
File Size code snippet,
>>> import os
>>> b= os.path.getsize("/path/isa_005.mp3")
>>> b
File I/O tutorial
>>> f = open( 'test.txt', 'at')
>>> f.writelines( str(b))
>>> f.close()
>>> f = open( 'test.txt', 'rt' )
>>> s = f.readlines()
>>> sDirectory Size Lister (Check out the comments at end of blog to get info on )

Pydirstat. pydirstat is a really handy cross-platform, command-line way to generate information about disk usage. http://developer.berlios.de/projects/pydirstat/

Future features:
1) Add catalog and search facility to uniquely identify each media, add tags for folders/files and user comments.
2) Allow collaboration and sharing of catalogs among friends to share useful files.
3) Possibly use bit-torrent protocol for the sharing??

To be released under GPL.

See Also:
MediaPacker sourceforge account