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 python-docs@python.org.

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

• Bulgarian
• Chinese
• Czechoslovakian
• Esperanto
• French
• German
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Norwegian
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish

• 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
  • 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.

• Czechoslovakian
  • Jak se nauèit programovat is a translation of Alan Gauld's Learning to Program.

• Esperanto
  • A Python tutorial in Esperanto by Bill Harris.

• French
  • The French company Logilab offers a Python course in French.

  • A new French Forum on Python has opened.

  • 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.

  • Stefane Fermigier had an article, Présentation du langage Python, in the French computer magazine, Pogrammez!. (10-Dec-1998)

  • French speaking Python mailing list

• German
  • 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 partial 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 (german-language) article for the german magazine, iX.

  • Das Python-Buch by Martin von Loewis and Nils Fischbeck. See also Addison-Wesley/Germany's entry for the book.

  • Python - kurz & gut. The German translation (by Christian Tismer) of Mark Lutz' Python Pocket Reference. O'Reilly Germany.

  • Information and subscription page for a mailing list for German-speaking Python users.

  • An article in the German magazine iX entitled "Beschränkung aufs Wesentliche - Wie Python arbeitet", by Rainer Fischbach.

• Japanese
  • 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.

  • Japanese Translation Project.

  • Japanese Python mailing list

• Korean
  • 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.

• Russian
  • 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.

• Spanish
  • 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-language MacPython mailing list.

  • Mailing list information for a Spanish-language list for discussions about Python.

• Hungarian
  • Python Language Website in Hungarian; contains links to Hungarian resources where available and English resources elsewhere. (Provided by Zsolt Hever.)

  • Python Mini Reference, translated from Chris Hoffmann's A Python Quick reference. (Provided by Zsolt Hever.)

  • Tkinter in Hungarian, based on Matt Conway's Tkinter Life Preserver. Also contains links to Fredrik Lundh's Tkinter Resources. (Provided by Zsolt Hever.)

  • The friendly snake (or The snake hiding in the shadow). Published in the Hungarian Edition of the Chip Magazine in July, 1999. It is a brief introduction to Python. (Provided by Zsolt Hever.)

• Portuguese
  • 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.

• 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:

  • Marco is also hosting an Italian mailing list. To join, email python@www.penguin.it; further info can be read here.

  • Alex Martelli maintains another Italian Python website; for starters, it has translations of two of Magnus Hetland's articles (with permission).

• Norwegian
  • Here is a Python tutorial in Norwegian.

• 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).