Python Grimoire¶

grimoire /grimwaar/ (noun) ::= a book of magic spells and invocations. Origin: French, alteration of grammaire ‘grammar’. A grammar is a description of a set of symbols and how to combine them to create well-formed sentences. A grimoire is a description of a set of magical symbols and how to combine them properly. It is sort of a recipe-book for magic spells.

The Python Grimoire explains how to perform common programming tasks in Python. It is a good place to go after you’ve read the Python Tutorial and have a reasonable grasp of the basics of the language. In essence, the Grimoire is a collection of small recipes for very basic tasks. Its purpose is similar to that of the Python Cookbook, but the Grimoire’s recipes are much simpler and more basic than those in the Cookbook. It does not cover advanced and/or specialized topics such as GUI toolkits and Jython.

The Grimoire, then, is an unpolished document. It may still contain occasional typos, formatting bloopers, code errors, and out-of-date material.

After the conversion to TiddlyWiki format, several people used this Grimoire as the start of their very own Python notebook.

May you find it as useful to guide your path as they did.