Python online tutorial
Part 4: Documentation
As with every other mainstream programming language, there are thousands of help pages for Python.
- The Bermotech Quick Guide is a one-stop PDF containing all you need to get started with Python. You can find it here:
- Bermotech Quick Guide (PDF): Python 3 Beginner’s Cheatsheet
- A very complete help set for Python 3, including an official tutorial, a library reference and a language reference (advanced users only) can be found here:
- Official Python 3 documentation: docs.python.org/3
- The official Python website also provides a very useful help page, with links to FAQs, an extensive package index and community aid resources.
- Official Python help page: www.python.org/about/help
- Should you ever need to find out more about Python 2, which is currently incompatible with the newer versions, you can check out Google’s course-based tutorial here:
- Google Python 2 beginner’s guide: developers.google.com/edu/python/introduction
- StackOverflow is an excellent Q & A page, with programming experts providing thousands of answers to people like you every day (not Python-specific!):
- Python-related questions: stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python
- The Python section over at TutorialsPoint is a page you’ll find yourself coming back to again and again due to its excellent organization and abundance of examples. Here is one of their pages, with all the reserved keywords you need to know:
- Reserved keywords (scroll down): www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_quick_guide