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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 tobe done.

This guide is currently under heavy development. This opinionated guideexists to provide both novice and expert Python developers a best practicehandbook to the installation, configuration, and usage of Python on a dailybasis.

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 interfacehg fromgit

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