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Python guide

Python best practices guidebook, written for humans.

From realpython·Updated May 29, 2026·View on GitHub·

**python guide** is a Python best practices guidebook, written for humans. The project is written primarily in Batchfile, distributed under the Other license, first published in 2011. It has gained significant community traction with 29,624 stars and 5,901 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: book, guide, python.

Hitchhiker's Guide to Python

Python Best Practices Guidebook

→ Read the free guide at: docs.python-guide.org <https://docs.python-guide.org>_

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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

If you aren't fond of reading reStructuredText, there is an
almost up-to-date HTML version at docs.python-guide.org <https://docs.python-guide.org>_.

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