selected bibliography perl--which probably has more regular expression features than any other tool howeversince python supports large subset of what perl provides (plus python' own ? extensions)the book is still useful to python programmers parsing techniquesa practical guidesecond edition dick gruneceriel jacobs (springer isbn xthis book provides comprehensive and in-depth coverage of parsing the first edition can be downloaded in pdf format from www cs vu nl/~dickptapg html python cookbooksecond edition alex martellianna ravenscroftdavid ascher ( 'reilly isbn this book is full of interesting--and practical--ideas covering all aspects of python programming the second edition is based on python so it might be worthwhile waiting and hoping for python -specific edition to appear python essential referencefourth edition david beazley (addison-wesley isbn the book' title is an accurate description the fourth edition has been updated to cover both python and python there is little overlap with this bookbut most of the essential reference is devoted to python' standard library as well as covering more advanced features such as extending python with libraries and embedding the python interpreter into other programs rapid gui programming with python and qt mark summerfield (prentice hall isbn this book (by this book' authorteaches pyqt programing pyqt (built on top of nokia' ++/qt gui toolkitis probably the easiest-to-use crossplatform gui libraryand the one that arguably produces the best user interfaces--especially compared with tkinter the book uses python although python versions of the examples are available from the book' web site