Introduction to Django by Jacob Kaplan-Moss is a great presentation (perfectly readable online in a very nice format) that introduces one to Django in a step-by-step fashion.
April 13, 2008
Orange is a data minding system / library for Python. It features Bayesian filtering, classification trees, majority classifiers, vectorm achines, logistic regression, rule-based classifiers, and pretty much anything you'd need for data mining and classification.
April 12, 2008
Learn how to read Excel spreadsheet files from Python. It's a lot simpler than you might think(!)
April 11, 2008
Idioms and Anti-Idioms in Python runs through a few Python techniques with the good and bad ways of achieving the same result. Whoever said there's only one way to do it?
April 10, 2008
Python By Example is a great resource for developers who learn languages best by looking at code. PBE provides a large collection of simple examples for most of the built-in Python functions, classes and methods.
A slightly old but incredibly in-depth tutorial demonstrating how to create GUI apps with Python and the Tkinter and wxPython libraries.
Neck Efford looks at how Python 3.0 changes the way Python can be taught from an educational point of view. A nice basic look at some Python 3.0 changes if nothing else.
PottyMouth is a library that sanitizes tainted / unsafe HTML. Ideal for Web apps, etc. As well as making HTML safer, it makes some formatting changes.. *bold* _italic_ and so on.
Someone needs some convincing to use Python. Or, as I'm finding, perhaps he just needs to dive in and see what happens.