Programming Python

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I used the python tutorial and library reference in addition to "Python in a Nutshell" ( http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001889/ ) With a healthy amount of coding, I've gotten very comfortable with python, although I still feel like I'm not quite utilizing it idiomatically. As such, I've been going through Programming Python ( http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596009250/ ) - which is very well written, IMO - as well as reading a healthy amount of other people's source code, notably CherryPy ( http://cherrypy.org/ ), since I use it a lot. If you're experienced with other languages, I'd suggest implementing something like a tetris clone as an exercise in learning the language. If you're only experienced with web-dev (as is often the case these days), I'd recommend implementing a few small web-apps with CherryPy - it's the most "pythonic" "we…

…ons started - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html and how they are now interpreted - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html and to program a simple client in python read the source code from Programming Python by Mark Lutz ~ http://www.rmi.net/~lutz/about-pp3e.html I mention Python & Lutz specifically because they are covered in detail as a CLI then GUI app in "Programming Python Ed3" , pp 766 - 911 ~ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python3/ You can download the source examples here ~ http://examples.oreilly.com/python3/