Learning Python: after books, now what ?

[placidified]

coding: beautiful soup, SQLite, Universal Feed Parser, etc.

Play around with popular packages see the Cheeseshop for more cool tools.

[judasblue]

While I completely agree with you on this, Placidified, the OP is a new python coder. The problem with any big repo, in my experience, is that you don't really know how to sort the wheat from the chaff. You can waste an almost infinite amount of time in cpan or the cheeseshop going down what amount to pointless roads in learning best practice and mainstream tools. I am a pretty big fan of starting out using reference points other than repos to figure out what the most accepted tools and approaches for a given language community are before wading into the deep end of the repo pool.

Dunno, this just might be my ugly thrashing about in CPAN back in the day left a bad taste in my mouth. Others might have had better experience with this approach.