Python Links

1. Automate the Boring Stuff:

Discusses topics like interfacing with Excel, Word, PDF docs, scheduling tasks and emails, manipulating images etc. 

The same author has two free online books on writing simple computer games with Python.

2. A deep dive into matplotlib (Jake Vanderplas)

An obligatory link to handy libraries built on top of matplotlib mpltools and seaborn, which add functionality and let you customize the look and feel of matplotlib plots.

3.  A keynote talk on the state of the python stack for scientific computing (HT John D Cook)