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Books for learning python:

• Learn To Program http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/
• Python Programming for the absolute beginner http://premierpressbooks.com/ptr_detail.cfm?isbn=1%2D59863%2D112%2D8
• Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science http://www.fbeedle.com/99-6.html
• Learning Python http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lpython2/index.html
• Dive Into Python http://diveintopython.org/
• Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10013
• Core Python Programming http://starship.python.net/crew/wesc/cpp/
• The Essential Python Reference http://www.samspublishing.com/title/0672328623
• Python in a Nutshell http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonian/index.html
• Python Cookbook http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythoncook2/
• http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBooks

Python Educational Material

• Beginners: Non-programmer’s tutorial for Python by Josh Cogliati (PDF)
• Beginners: Python & programming trainig with Rosalind
• Beginners: Learn programming with Python (Coursera); check for new courses on Coursera too
• Some coding experience: Python tutorials from ANGUS
• Some coding experience: A primer on Python
• Some coding experience: Python intro talks on Software Carpentry (assumes basic programming concepts like variables, loops, conditionals, lists/arrays)
• Reference: PythonQuick – handy tutorial & reference for Python
• Reference: BioPython Tutorial - a Python package providing modules for common tasks in bioinformatics, including reading and writing sequence data
• Reference: BioPython wiki – examples on how to use some modules

The python packages https://pypi.python.org/pypi/

You can also use this regular expression tutorial @ http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Misc/perl-5.6.1/pod/perlretut.html

I also find this cheat sheet more informative http://ult-tex.net/info/perl/

There is lots of cheat sheets are available online, I found this link really interesting @ https://github.com/WilliamHackmore/linuxgems/blob/master/cheat_sheet.org.sh

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