Paul Graham Aug 2001 "I said something that upset a lot of people: that you could get smarter programmers to work on a Python project than you could to work on a Java project."
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"I could write a spelling corrector that achieves 80 or 90% accuracy at a rate of at least 10 words per second." and did, a guide on how it works is included also.
Collection of practical examples of the Python programming language. These might be useful if you want to see some of the features without actually learning the language itself.