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No matter where you are in your Python journey, it can always help to practice and refine your skills. This page lists the best resources I’ve found for practicing Python — through exercises and challenges.

If you have found a good resource that helps people to practice and improve their Python skills, send me e-mail at reuven@lerner.co.il, and I’ll add it to this list.

Books

  • Python Workout  — 50 exercises to improve your Python skills, published by Manning.
  • Pandas Workout — 50 exercises to improve your skills with Python’s famous “Pandas” package for data analysis.
  • Practice Makes Regexp — 50 exercises to improve your skills with regular expressions, including solutions in Python
  • Learn Python the Hard Way — Zed Shaw’s ebook that teaches you Python via exercises

Free services

Paid services

  • Weekly Python Exercise — a family of 15-week courses, with new cohorts (at beginning and advanced levels) starting every 1-2 months.  WPE combines weekly challenges, a private forum, and live office hours for lots of Python practice.
  • Python Morsels — weekly challenges on a variety of Python topics.
  • PyBytes — weekly challenges, often using Django or Flask to create Web applications.
  • Codecademy — learn Python (and many other languages), with the initial classes being free
  • HackerRank
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