A number of developers have been working on adding examples and useful advice to the docs. To sharpen your skills, here are some pieces of recommended reading: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/heapq.html#priority-queue-implementation-notes http://docs.python.org/dev/library/bisect.html#searching-sorted-lists http://docs.python.org/dev/library/re.html#writing-a-tokenizer http://docs.python.org/dev/library/cmd.html#cmd-example http://docs.python.org/dev/library/collections.html#ordereddict-examples-and-recipes http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/logging.html http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/sorting.html http://docs.python.org/dev/library/collections.html#collections.namedtuple Raymond python tips on twitter: @raymondh