Learning Python programming with generic GIS goals in mind?
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- GIS Lounge's GIS + Python page
- Python Geo-Spatial Development
For straight python, his has been discussed thoroughly on Stack Overflow:
- How to learn Python?
- Newbie teaching self python, what else should I be learning?
- Fastest way to learn Python?
- How should I go about learning Python?
The second link has a link to the latest edition of a book I loved when learning python How to Think Like A Computer Scientist: Learning With Python
- Zed Shaw's learn python book: Learn Python the Hard Way.
- Geoprocessing with Python using Open Source GIS.
For Python GIS, see the FOSS4G 2010 python workshop and the corresponding slides
A good start, mainly oriented on Pylons framework and Geoalchemy, the two main components of Mapfish Server
Edit : Do a
git clone https://github.com/elpaso/python-gis-workshop
see into the pdf all the links related to GIS for python and enjoy !
Dive Into Python. Good and free. Provides good intro to many basic Pythonic principles.
Here's a shameless plug for a article I wrote for ArcUser on geoprocessing with Python.