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+python-guide: Python Best Practices Guidebook
+=============================================
+
+**Work in progress.**
+
+The goal of this project is to establish a set of open source reference guides for Python developers. 
+
+Topics will include:
+
+- Platform/version specific installations
+- Py2app, Py2exe, bbfreeze, pyInstaller
+- Pip / virtualenv
+- Documentation. Writing it.
+- server configurations / tools for various web frameworks
+- fabric
+- exhaustive module recommendations, grouped by topic/purpose
+- Testing. Jenkins + tox guides.
+- How to interface w/ hg from git easily
+- what libraries to use for what
+
+
+Misc
+----
+
+- Will be hosted on ReadTheDocs.
+