Useful websites with Python

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Please add (or suggest) your favourite website!

The basics

The official website:
http://www.python.org/

IPython and the IPython notebook
http://ipython.org/index.html
http://ipython.org/notebook.html

Biopython: : Python designed for bioinformatics
http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page

Pandas
pandas is an open source, BSD-licensed library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools for the Python programming language.
http://pandas.pydata.org/



Python tutorials

Learn python (interactive)
http://www.learnpython.org/

codeacademy (interactive). Not only for learning python, but also for many other languages.
http://www.codecademy.com/

Learn python the hard way (commercial website)
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/

biopython tutorial
http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/tutorial/Tutorial.html

Pandas and python. A blog on how to use pandas in python
http://manishamde.github.io/blog/2013/03/07/pandas-and-python-top-10/

Python for biologist: a blog and tutorial website.
http://pythonforbiologists.com/?

A book on learning python: Think Python
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/

A much larger overview of python tutorials online
https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers