Hitchhiker's Guide to Python ============================

Python Best Practices Guidebook

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**Work in progress. If you'd like to help, please do. There's a lot of work to be done.**

This guide is currently under heavy development. This opinionated guide exists to provide both novice and expert Python developers a best practice handbook to the installation, configuration, and usage of Python on a daily basis.

Topics include:

• Platform and version-specific installations
• Py2app, Py2exe, bbfreeze, pyInstaller
• Pip
• Numpy, scipy, statpy, pyplot, matplotlib
• Virtualenv
• Fabric
• Exhaustive module recommendations, grouped by topic/purpose
• Which libraries to use for what
• Server configurations & tools for various web frameworks
• Documentation: writing it
• Testing: Jenkins & tox guides
• How to easily interface `hg from git