Ask HN:What are the best online resources to learn Python?
I am starting to learn python and there are a ton of resources. I kind a got overwhelmed with all the available sources. What are the best ones according to you?
Python 2: https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/index.html
Python 3: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html
Also start browsing through the modules listing, so that you don't reinvent too many wheels:
Python 2: https://docs.python.org/2/py-modindex.html
Python 3: https://docs.python.org/3/py-modindex.html
And the answer to whether you should learn 2 or 3 is:
2, because there are still 3rd party tools that don't support 3. Or because your friends are using 2.
Unless you know you need 3.
Or if all your friends are using 3 (because that's where a lot of your help is going to come from).
https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3
But it doesn't matter overly much. Unless it does, for your job, but then they'll tell you.
Basically, these are coding exercises (floating about in various forked versions) that do a pretty good job at testing your working knowledge of core syntax (much better than staring at online tutorials, anyway). Including, importantly, a lot of the fussy stuff you don't think you need to be familiar with, but actually, you do (and would probably neglect entirely if you tried to sharpen your skills just by working on personal projects, thinking in terms of the idioms of whatever language you were most recently working with).
Just find a good weekend, roll up your sleeves, and push yourself through them. No one will be able to kick sand in your face in an interview or a phone screen ("What? You don't know about named tuples?") ever again.
http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/thinkcspy/inde...
http://codecondo.com/10-ways-to-learn-python/
the absolute essential starting point for any want-to-be developer.
(I am the co-founder)