Introduction to programming with Python

HTML Version

The HTML version is available here: http://opentechschool.github.com/python-beginners/

The following sections are for people who want to contribute.

Setup

This workshop is written in the reStructuredText format. The .rst files can be edited with a normal text editor.

It can be rendered to several output formats using Sphinx. To do that, you need to have the following Python packages installed:

• docutils
• Pygments
• Sphinx
• Fabric

Build

The fabric script fabfile.py contains tasks making the build process very easy. The following commands have to be executed in the docs directory.

If you just want to render the HTML version, it's sufficient to run

fab build

This will create a directory _build inside the docs directory, containing the HTML version.

Other builders can be passed as argument. For instance use singlehtml to render the whole tutorial into a single HTML file.

fab build:singlehtml

Deploy

The workshop is deployed as a GitHub Page. A good way to do that is described here. To simplify this process, you can use the fabric target setup.

fab setup

This creates a clone of the repository inside the _build folder. You can now run fab build, change into docs/_build/html, commit and push.