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dive into python by MarkPilgrim. He has a number of Python Projects.
xmltramp by AaronSwartz. Python geeks: Do you have any suggestions on a better way to get output from a SAX parser? Right now I?m having it raise an exception with the object I want as the payload. This seems pretty klugey. Is there a better way? Update: Version 1.1 now passes the result through an attribute in the ContentHandler. I would love to hear your thoughts.
DonPark has coded a Python wrapper for PGP. He writes: "I spent an hour this morning building Python wrapper for PGP 8.0 using SWIG. PyPGPsdk invokes functions exported by PGPsdk[XX].dlls using Python. I also have PyPGPsc and PyPGPclientLib modules for invoking PGPsc.dll and PGPclientLib.dll. I haven't had a chance to bang heavily on it yet, but its useful already."
Python Tutorial
Python for Newbies
Others?

Recommended Books:

Narrative: Joi Learns To Code Python

RussellBeattie was on #joiito the other day asking for recommendations. He also asked on #python. Anyone have any recommendations for a Python IDE?

Stani's Python Editor (Free, Open-Source)
Black Adder (Commerical)
Visual Python (Commerical)
Python Works Pro (Commerical)
Wing IDE (Commerical)

In Linux, I mostly use Kate or KWrite. In Windows I have used IDLE. -- VictorRuiz

EdwardReam advises that you can use his outline editor, Leo for literate programming

DavidGoodger - Project coordinator and architect of Docutils: Python Documentation Utilities; volunteers as a Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) Editor
EdwardReam - Creator of Leo, an outline editor that supports literate programming
JackJansen - Maintainer of Python for the Macintosh; has ported a number of libraries to the (OS9 and earlier) Mac
MarkHammond - Author of many of the Windows extensions for Python; co-author of the COM framework and extensions
MatthewLefkowitz - Lead developer of Twisted, a framework written in Python, for writing networked applications