Non-English Python Resources

Here are links to Python documents in languages other than English, including things like Python documentation translations, articles, and mailing lists.

If you have a new item to add to this list, contact docs@python.org.

Here are links to the sections on this page, by language:

• Bulgarian
• Chinese
• Croatian
• Czech
• Dutch
• Esperanto
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Malaysian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Slovak
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Thai
• Turkish

Bulgarian

• The Python Tutorial is available in Bulgarian, thanks to Kaloian Doganov. Please contact him if you'd like to help translate to Bulgarian!

Chinese

• Python Chinese User Group and mailing list.
• One Day of IDLE Toying in Chinese
• Python book reviews, translated into Chinese. The English originals were written by David Mertz.
• ChinesePython is a port of the Python language into Chinese (using Unicode). This is not just a translation of documentation, all keywords have been translated into Chinese, too. The project also has a Chinese Wiki.
• Wesley Chun's Core Python Programming is now available in Chinese! (China Machine Press, August 2001, 518 pp.)
• The Python Tutorial was translated by Harry Chou.
• Dive Into Python, a free Python tutorial for experienced programmers, has been translated into Chinese by limodou. Read it online or download it.

Croatian

• There is a Python tutorial in Croatian, written by Nikola Plejic. Three parts are available: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.

Czech

• Ucebnice jazyka Python (aneb Létající cirkus) is a translation of the standard Python Tutorial.
• Jak se nauèit programovat is a translation of Alan Gauld's Learning to Program.

Dutch

• Python Tutorial is a translation of Guido's original Python Tutorial (translated by Lidwine van As).
• Eén dagje spelen met IDLE is a translation of Danny Yoo's One Day of IDLE Toying (translated by Mark Lambrecht).

Esperanto

• A Python tutorial in Esperanto by Bill Harris.

French

• AFPY - Association Francophone PYthon, a French-speaking Python users' group.
• There is a wiki for French-speaking Python users.
• Cours de programmation Python, by Gérard Swinnen. This document is partly and adaptation and translation of Downey & Elkner's How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, and partly original material.
• Une journée avec IDLE is a French translation of Danny Yoo's One Day of IDLE Toying, translated by Yannick Gobin.
• The French company Logilab offers a Python course in French.
• Python & Compagnie, a French-language forum for beginners, is available.
• A team of French-speaking translators of the python official documentation is very active, and has set up a project on SourceForge: http://frpython.sourceforge.net. Contributors are of course allways welcome. The result of their efforts and current status can be found here.
• Python Blanc Bleu Belge is a page of Python news and information maintained by the Belgian Free Software Programmers Club.
• Learning Python, by Mark Lutz and David Ascher, has now been translated into French by Olivier Berger, Sébastien Tanguy and Jérôme Kalifa. It's in French bookstores as Introduction à Python.
• Tutoriel Python, a tutorial written by Jérôme Tschanz.
• First French Python Day - May 28 1999, near Paris. Organized by PSA member ONERA. Some resources:
  • Slides of Guido van Rossum's talk (PowerPoint, in English).
  • Slides of Aaron Watters' talk (HTML, in English). (PowerPoint, code)
  • Slides of Stefane Fermigier's talk (HTML, in French).
  • Abstract of JPF001 slides with links, by Kilian Golm and Christian Tismer. They also have PowerPoint slides available.
• At Olivier Berger's Python site you'll find various packagings of a French translation of the Python tutorial, including:
  • an online HTML version,
  • tar.gz and zip archives of it, and
  • dvi and postscript renderings.
  • Also, his translation of Magnus Hetland's Instant Python.
• Stefane Fermigier had an article, Présentation du langage Python, in the French computer magazine, Pogrammez!. (10-Dec-1998)
• French Python mailing list

German

• An Einfuehrung (introduction) and Beispiele (examples).
• A German-language newsgroup, de.comp.lang.python.
• A German-language IRC channel, #Python.de on IRCnet.
• Python für Kids - Gregor Lingl's book introducing Python to kids in middle and high school. See also the book's home page.
• German language Python forum
• Another German website for Python users.
• A German page for newcomers and oldtimers, maintained by Peter Gerlach.
• Einstieg in Python, by Thomas Theis, is a German book teaching Python for beginners. Published by Galileo Press.
• Pythonmania, a German site with a growing collection of tutorials and how-tos.
• German Python Board A German Python Board for Python programmers.. The first German board for newbies and all others!
• Python - kurz & gut, 2. Auflage. The German translation (by Dinu Gherman & Christian Tismer) of Mark Lutz's Python Pocket Reference covers Python 2.2. O'Reilly Germany.
• Python & XML is the translation of Python and XML by Christopher A. Jones & Fred L. Drake, Jr. into German by Dinu Gherman. O'Reilly Germany.
• Danny Yoo's: Ein Tag Spielerei mit IDLE - a gentle introduction to IDLE (translated by # Gregor Lingl).
• Python Standard-Bibliothek is the translation of Python Standard Library by Fredrik Lundh into German by Christian Tismer & Dinu C. Gherman. O'Reilly Germany.
• Perl und Python - Zwei Skriptsprachen im Vergleich is a comparison of Perl and Python by Stefan Schwarzer.
• Python Referenz is a translation of Python Essential Reference, 1st ed., by David Beazley into German by Dinu Gherman for M+T Verlag, Germany.
• Programmieren lernen is a translation of Alan Gauld's Learning to Program.
• Einführung in Python is a translation of Learning Python by David Ascher & Mark Lutz into German by Christian Tismer for O'Reilly Germany.
• Mit Python Programmieren by Tobias Himstedt and Klaus Mänzel.
• Das Python-Tutorium is a German translation of the Python Tutorial. The translation was performed by Dinu Gherman.
• Tobias Himstedt wrote a article for the German magazine iX.
• Das Python-Buch by Martin von Löwis and Nils Fischbeck. See also Addison-Wesley/Germany's entry for the book.
• German Python mailing list
• An article in the German magazine iX entitled "Beschränkung aufs Wesentliche - Wie Python arbeitet", by Rainer Fischbach.

Greek

• Danny Yoo's: One Day of IDLE Toying - a gentle introduction to IDLE (translated by Leon IV Isauvros).

Hebrew

• Python-IL; contains links and discussions of interest to Python programmers in Israel.

Hungarian

• Python Language Website in Hungarian; contains links to Hungarian resources where available and English resources elsewhere.

Indonesian

• Tutorial Python is a translation of the tutorial which is found in the standard documentation package.
• Tutorial PyGTK 2, by Mige Harimurti, describes how to use PyGTK 2.
• Satu Hari bermain dengan IDLE, a translation of Danny Yoo's One Day of IDLE Toying by I Wayan Wandira.
• Komunitas Python Indonesia is the Indonesian Python community site.

Italian

• The Italian Python Web site is maintained by Marco Buzzo. Very comprehensive, with much original material.
• An Italian newsgroup, free.it.python, has been created. The newgroup is gated to the mailing list:
• Italian Python mailing list
• Un giorno alle press con IDLE, a translation of Danny Yoo's One Day of IDLE Toying by Roberto Distefano.
• Alex Martelli maintains another Italian Python website, including translations of Magnus Hetland's articles (with permission).

Japanese

• Python book reviews, translated into Japanese from English originals by David Mertz.
• PyJUG - Python Japan Users Group. This maintains the Japanese Python mailing list
• Alan Gauld's Learn to Program using Python is available in Japanese.
• Learning Python by Mark Lutz and David Ascher is available in Japanese translation.
• Programming Python has been translated to Japanese, and has been published in two volumes (vol.1, vol.2).
• The Python Pocket Reference has been translated as well.
• Junichi Suzuki wrote a series of articles concerning Python for the Japanese edition of Doctor Dobb's Journal.
• The Japanese Translation Project provides translations of the standard documentation. (Downloads)

Korean

• Wesley Chun's Core Python Programming is now available in Korean!
• Learn to Program using Python is a Koream translation of Alan Gauld's online tutorial.
• Korean translation of the Python Tutorial provided by Man-Yong Lee.
• Korean PyGTK Tutorial, also by Man-Yong Lee.
• Python Web site in Korean, including a variety of new and translated documentation as well as a mirror of the standard documentation in English. Written and maintained by Gang Seong Lee.
• Danny Yoo's: One Day of IDLE Toying - a gentle introduction to IDLE (translated by Jisoo Yi).

Malaysian

• One Day of IDLE Toying in Malaysian

Polish

• There is a mailing list for Polish-speaking Python users.

Portuguese

• There is a four-part tutorial and a few other resources in Brazilan Portuguese at this site.
• Introdução a Python - Módulo A is a Python tutorial written by Josué Labaki.
• HOWTO Programando com Socket is Maxweel S. Carmo's translation of Gordon McMillan's Socket Programming HOWTO.
• Maior Portal Wiki Brasileiro de Python. (Python Brasil is a wiki that provides various Python resources in Portuguese.)
• Interpretador/Compilador Python (PDF), by Eduardo Bastos and Juliano Freitas. Published in II Congresso Simulado de Compiladores (CONSICO)/UCPel.
• Implementando Grafos em Python, translated into Brazillian Portuguese by Flávio Codeço Coelho.
• Python na prática ("Python in Practice"), by Christian Reis, is an introduction to Python in Brazilian Portuguese. (Also in PDF and PostScript).
• Python-Brasil is a mailing list for Python users who speak Brazilian Portuguese. (This list replaces the old Python-BR list.)
• O ABC do IDLE - a gentle introduction to IDLE (Danny Yoo's One Day of IDLE Toying, translated by Fernando Manaças Ferreira).
• Aprendendo a Programar is a partial translation of Alan Gauld's Learning to Program.
• Translation of Python 2.1 tutorial into Brazilian Portuguese.
• A Portuguese translation of the Instant Python, a 6-page minimal crash course by Magnus Lie Hetland. (Provided by Wanderlei Antonio Cavassin.)
• A presentation based on the Python Reference Manual (but not a translation) made by Marcelo Pereira Nunes to his local Special Interest Group on Programing Languages (GRULING).
• Luciano Ramalho has made available his Aprenda a Programar (Learn to Program) primer, written especially for non-programmers.

Romanian

• Tutorial Python 2.2 is the translation of the Python Tutorial by GvR et al. into Romanian by Mihai Matei Gheorghe and Aurelian Coman.

Russian

• Russian Python & Zope User Group. See also their mailing list, including archive and search.
• A Python tutorial in Russian is available, with additional information about built-in functions, CGI programming, and exercises.
• General Python information in the Russian language provided by Zaur Shibzoukhov.
• A Russian translation of the Python Tutorial by Sultanbek Tezadov. Here is an an alternate location for the translation.
• Sultanbek Tezadov has also made translations of the Python essays to Russian available.
• Python Learning Complex is Vadim Zaitsev's thesis paper.

Slovak

• Základy programovacieho jazyka Python -- original documentation for Python in Slovak, by Milan Toma. This includes the basics of programming in Python, from the print statement to object-oriented programming.

Spanish

• Preguntas Frecuentes de Python
• Un poco de programación en Python para principiantes -- Spanish Web site covering Python topics.
• Recursos de Python provides a set of documents and translations of various tutorial material on Python.
• Comenzando con IDLE: introduction to IDLE.
• Inmersión en Python: Dive into Python translated into Spanish.
• Aprendiendo a programar is a translation of Alan Gauld's Learning to Program.
• Noticias de Python en Español. A partir de este momento se encuentra en operaciones este sitio, que pretende mantener informado a todos los de habla hispana respecto de las últimas novedades de Python y sus distintas librerías. (Similar to Daily Python-URL for Spanish-speaking Python users.)
• Documentación de Python 2.0 - Proyecto de traducción al castellano. Ya están disponibles el tutorial y otros.
• Nueva lista de usuarios de Python castellanoparlantes
• Subscription address for a Spanish MacPython mailing list.
• Spanish Python mailing list

Swedish

• ComputerSweden published an article on Secret Labs and eXtreme Programming.
• DatorMagazine is starting a series of articles on Python programming in their June 2001 issue (appearantly not online).

Thai

• One Day of IDLE Toying in Thai

Turkish

• WEB TABANLI UYGULAMALAR IÇIN PYTHON -- Turkish documentation on Python by Mustafa Akgun.
• Python K?lavuzu is a Turkish translation of the Python Tutorial.
• Turkish Python mailing list