# Python HOWTOs

Python HOWTOs are documents that cover a specific topic in-depth. Modeled on the Linux Documentation Project’s HOWTO collection, this collection is an effort to foster documentation that’s more detailed than the Python Library Reference.

General:

- Annotations Best Practices

- Argparse Tutorial

- Descriptor Guide

- Enum HOWTO

- Functional Programming HOWTO

- An introduction to the ipaddress module

- Logging HOWTO

- Logging Cookbook

- Regular Expression HOWTO

- Sorting Techniques

- Unicode HOWTO

- HOWTO Fetch Internet Resources Using The urllib Package

Advanced development:

- Curses Programming with Python

- Python experimental support for free threading

- C API Extension Support for Free Threading

- Isolating Extension Modules

- The Python 2.3 Method Resolution Order

- Socket Programming HOWTO

- timer file descriptor HOWTO

- Porting Extension Modules to Python 3

Debugging and profiling:

- Debugging C API extensions and CPython Internals with GDB

- Instrumenting CPython with DTrace and SystemTap

- Python support for the Linux perf profiler