Create our own python source repository

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qwwee:
> for a certain argument I'd prefer an application fully
>explained (also if not covering all the features) to a more general
>tutorial with only brief and unrelated code snippets.
>Unfortunately, that's not the way things are normally done, because it
>is much harder to build a useful application and fully comment it

A part the Cookbook, I know of at least two Python books taking the
approach you describe:

1. Dive into Python (Pilgrim)
2. Programming Python (Lutz)

Dive into Python is free (and even translated in Italian on
www.python.it, IIRC)

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