What is The Python Papers?



The Python Papers is a free e-journal, including industry and academic articles.


We are proud of the diversity of content in our journal, covering Python User Groups from around the world, conferences and other events, open-source projects and the use of Python in commercial organisations.




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Current Edition: Volume 3, Issue 1



The Python Papers, Volume 3, Issue 1 (pdf)



Table of Contents for Volume 3, Issue 1


Letter from the editor Page 4
Industry Articles
Pyfundamentalism: The Emotions Provoked by Python Page 5
What Is ShowMeDo? Page 7
An Efficient Scalar Package In Python Page 21
PyGTK, PyQT, Tkinter and wxPython comparison Page 26
Python Events Page 81
Peer Reviewed Section
Doctest and unittest... now they'll live happily together Page 38
The Python Interpreter as a Framework for Integrating Scientific Computing Software-Components Page 52
Parts-of-Speech Tagger Errors Do Not Necessarily Degrage Accuracy In Extracting Information from Biomedical Text Page 65


Links to past editions



The Python Papers, Volume 2, Issue 4 (pdf)
The Python Papers, Volume 2, Issue 3 (pdf)
The Python Papers, Volume 2, Issue 2 (pdf) HTML (unofficial for referencing purposes)
The Python Papers, Volume 2, Issue 1 (pdf) HTML (unofficial for referencing purposes)
The Python Papers, Volume 1, Issue1 1 (pdf) HTML version unavailable