Documentation links

• Last edited on Sep 6, 2014, 1:06:56 PM by Ffisegydd

A collection of links to commonly-used documentation complete with markdown-ready text. Note that all documentation links should be for the most up-to-date version (aka Python 3 :D )

Python

• Python docs - [Python docs](https://docs.python.org/3/)
• Python stdlib - [Python stdlib](https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html)
• Python tutorial - [Python tutorial](https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html)

Python stdlib

• Built-in functions - [Built-in functions](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html)
• Boolean operations - [Boolean operations](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#boolean-operations-and-or-not)
• Numeric types - [Numeric types](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#numeric-types-int-float-complex)
  • int - [int](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#int)
  • float - [float](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float)
  • complex = [complex](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#complex)
• Sequence types - [Sequence types](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#sequence-types-list-tuple-range)
  • list - [list](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list)
    • list methods - [list methods](https://docs.python.org/3.4/tutorial/datastructures.html#more-on-lists)
    • list comprehensions - [list comprehensions](https://docs.python.org/3.4/tutorial/datastructures.html#list-comprehensions)
  • tuple - [tuple](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#tuple)
  • range - [range](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#range)
  • map - [map](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#map)
  • zip - [zip](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#zip)
• Text sequence types - [Text sequence types](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#text-sequence-type-str)
  • str - [str](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str)
    • string operations - [string operations](https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html)
    • string formatting - [string formatting](https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#string-formatting)
    • formatting mini-language - [formatting mini-language](https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#format-specification-mini-language)
    • template strings - [template strings](https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#template-strings)
• Set types - [Set types](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#set-types-set-frozenset)
  • set - [set](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#set)
  • frozenset - [set](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#frozenset)
    • set comprehensions - [set comprehensions](https://docs.python.org/3.4/tutorial/datastructures.html#sets)
• Mapping types - [Mapping types](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#mapping-types-dict)
  • dict - [dict](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#dict)
    • dict comprehensions - [dict comprehensions](https://docs.python.org/3.4/tutorial/datastructures.html#dictionaries)
• Tuple unpacking - [Tuple unpacking](https://docs.python.org/3.4/tutorial/controlflow.html#tut-unpacking-arguments)
• datetime - [datetime](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html)
  • datetime.datetime - [datetime.datetime](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime-objects)
  • datetime.date - [datetime.date](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#date-objects)
  • datetime.time - [datetime.time](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#time-objects)
  • datetime.timedelta - [datetime.timedelta](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#timedelta-objects)
  • strftime and strptime formatting - [strftime and strptime formatting](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior)
• collections - [collections](https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html)
  • collections.Counter - [collections.Counter](https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.Counter)
  • collections.OrderedDict - [collections.OrderedDict](https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.OrderedDict)
  • collections.defaultdict - [collections.defaultdict](https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.defaultdict)
• math - [math](https://docs.python.org/3/library/math.html)
• decimal - [decimal](https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html)
• fractions - [fractions](https://docs.python.org/3/library/fractions.html)
• random - [random](https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html)
• itertools - [itertools](https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html)
• operator - [operator](https://docs.python.org/3/library/operator.html)
• os - [os](https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html)
• os.path - [os.path](https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html)

Scipy stack

Numpy

Matplotlib

• matplotlib - [matplotlib](http://matplotlib.org/contents.html)
• matplotlib.pyplot - [matplotlib.pyplot](http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html)
  • plt.close - [plt.close](http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.close)
  • plt.connect - [plt.connect](http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.connect)
  • plt.figure - [plt.figure](http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.figure)
  • plt.gca - [plt.gca](http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.gca)
  • plt.gcf - [plt.gcf](http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.gcf)
  • plt.hold - [plt.hold](http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.hold)
  • plt.rc - [plt.rc](http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.rc)
  • plt.savefig - [plt.savefig](http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.savefig)
  • plt.show - [plt.show](http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.show)
  • plt.subplot - [plt.subplot](http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.subplot)
  • plt.subplots - [plt.subplots](http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.subplots)
  • plt.suptitle - [plt.suptitle](http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.suptitle)
  • plt.xkcd - [plt.xkcd](http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.xkcd)
• matplotlib.figure - [matplotlib.figure](http://matplotlib.org/api/figure_api.html)
  • matplotlib.figure.Figure - [matplotlib.figure.Figure](http://matplotlib.org/api/figure_api.html#matplotlib.figure.Figure)
  • fig.add_subplot - [fig.add_subplot](http://matplotlib.org/api/figure_api.html#matplotlib.figure.Figure.add_subplot)
• matplotlib.axes - [matplotlib.axes](http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#module-matplotlib.axes)
  • ax.bar - [ax.bar](http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.bar)
  • ax.errorbar - [ax.errorbar](http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.errorbar)
  • ax.grid - [ax.grid](http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.grid)
  • ax.hist - [ax.hist](http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.hist)
  • ax.imshow - [ax.imshow](http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.imshow)
  • ax.legend - [ax.legend](http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.legend)
  • ax.margins - [ax.margins](http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.margins)
  • ax.plot - [ax.plot](http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.plot)
  • ax.plot_date - [ax.plot_date](http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.plot_date)
  • ax.scatter - [ax.scatter](http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.scatter)
  • ax.set_title - [ax.set_title](http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_title)
  • ax.set_xlabel - [ax.set_xlabel](http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_xlabel)
  • ax.set_xlim - [ax.set_xlim](http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_xlim)
  • ax.text - [ax.text](http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.text)
• matplotlib.colors - [matplotlib.colors](http://matplotlib.org/api/colors_api.html)
• matplotlib.dates - [matplotlib.dates](http://matplotlib.org/api/dates_api.html)
• matplotlib.gridspec - [matplotlib.gridspec](http://matplotlib.org/api/gridspec_api.html)
  • Gridspec guide - [Gridspec guide](http://matplotlib.org/users/gridspec.html)
• matplotlib.legend - [matplotlib.legend](http://matplotlib.org/api/legend_api.html)
  • Legend guide - [Legend guide](http://matplotlib.org/users/legend_guide.html#plotting-guide-legend)
• matplotlib.markers - [matplotlib.markers](http://matplotlib.org/api/markers_api.html)
• matplotlib.tight_layout - [matplotlib.tight_layout](http://matplotlib.org/api/tight_layout_api.html)
  • Tight Layout guide - [Tight Layout guide](http://matplotlib.org/users/tight_layout_guide.html)

Scipy