This page is intended mainly as reminder for myself, as I often start from scratch in new virtual machines. But a number of these posts might be useful for others, especially for those encountering Ubuntu/Xubuntu specific dependency errors.

Python distributions:

• Official Python Distribution (Python Documentation)
• ActivePython

Managing many different Python versions and virtual environments:

• pyenv (available for Linux/OSX)

Installing ActivePython and additional packages

• Setting up Python developing environment on Xubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS
• Installing pip in virtual environment
• Installing readline support in ActivePython virtual environment on Linux
• Installing ipython in virtual environment on Linux
• Installing lxml in virtual environment on Linux
• pip installations of sphinx, numpy & imapclient in virtual environment on Linux work out-of-the-box
• Installing nltk3 for Python3 in virtual environment on Linux
• textblob-de
• New release: textblob-de 0.4.2
• Recent overview of Python NLP resources on DataScienceCentral

Preferred cross-platform IDE:

• Wing IDE v5 available for Win/Linux/OSX (free open-source development license)

Preferred source control system:

• git (see Roger Dudler’s perfect, mobile device friendly ‘simple guide’)
• TortoiseGit
• git-flow cheat sheet

PyQT GUI Tutorials:

PyQt4

• Part1
• Part2
• Part3

PyQt5

• Episode 1
• Episode 2
• Episode 3

Useful doc pages:

• Sphinx
  • Python domain specs [:py:mod:, …]
  • rst directives [note, warning, seealso, …]
  • rst inline markup [:file:, :menuselection:, …]
• lxml
  • Parsing HTML and XML documents

XML tutorials

• Python XML Parser Tutorial: Create & Read XML with Examples (tons of ads, but useful)