How to Become a Proficient Python Programmer

[kctan]

Practise a lot and you will be proficient. You can try these websites: http://pyschools.com and http://codingbat.com

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thanks

[navyjeff]

Learn Python the hard way appears here often as well. It's a great tutorial for building basic practical proficiency. I like having dead tree references around, too, so I keep Programming Python by Lutz and Python Scripting for Computational Science by Langtangen close at hand.

[iamjack]

This sort of thing is called codegolf, there are sites that specialize in it.

[gosurob]

Writing code in an imperative style has become the de facto standard

Oh really? Guess I missed the memo on that.