Web Standards Programmer's Reference: HTML, CSS, JavaScript®, Perl, Python®, and PHP

26.2. Additional Python Resources

This chapter provides an overview of Python, but due to the scope of this book, it is simply an overview. For more information on Python, consult the following resources:

• The Python.org Web site (http://www.python.org)—The main site for information and documentation on Python, downloading Python, reading online documentation to include a detailed Module index, and following Python's development.

• The Starship Python Web site (http://starship.python.net/)—A pretty good resource for Python documentation, code examples, and so on, especially the search engine at http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/pyhelp.cgi.

• Pythonware.com Web site (http://www.pythonware.com/)—A good source for Python news, including a daily updated news log.

• The Zope Project (http://www.zope.org)—Zope is an Open Source Web applications server primarily written in Python.

• The Graphical User Interface sites—There is not one single library for creating graphical user interfaces with Python. Tkinter has the edge time-wise, although Python users often question why wxPython is not the recommended library. If you are considering doing graphical user interfaces with Python, consider both these sites:

  • Tkinter (http://www.pythonware.com/library/)—The Tkinter library is based on Tcl/Tk. It is the de facto standard for GUIs.

  • WxPython (http://www.wxpython.org/)—An up-and-coming library, WxPython is a cross between the wxWindows class library for C++ and Python.