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HOWTO Articles

Get comfortable using Python with Yahoo! Web Services

• Make Yahoo! Web Service REST calls with Python
• Cache API calls using Python
• Parse JSON using Python
• Parse XML using Python
• Access the Yahoo! Search APIs using pYsearch
• Access Yahoo! RSS feeds using Python
• A helpful class for using Yahoo! Browser-Based Authentication (no article yet!)

Useful resources

Definitive Python information from the web

• Python.org is the home of Python on the Web.
• The Python Cookbook is a collection of useful Python code snippets.
• The Python Package Index offers a wide range of open-source Python packages for easy installation.
• The ONLamp.com Python DevCenter has a large archive of articles and tutorials about Python.
• The Daily Python-URL is a frequently updated source of Python community news.
• Planet Python tracks numerous Python developer weblogs.

Educational Sites

Extensive learning resources

• The official Python Tutorial offers a succinct introduction to the language.
• Dive Into Python is a free book designed to help people with prior programming experience learn Python. It is also available in dead-tree format.
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python uses Python to teach computer science concepts.

Community Resources

Discuss how to work with the Yahoo! Web Services and other APIs using Python on the ydn-python mailing list. Please note that this is not a general Python programming list; try to keep your questions focused to discussion about the Yahoo! APIs.

We also provide individual lists for each of the web services and APIs we support; your questions are always welcome there as well. See the Yahoo! Developer Network Community page for more information on these mailing lists.