Cookbook for beginners?

[Rene Pijlman]

Aahz:
>If you were going to name three or five essential recipes from the
>Python Cookbook suitable for beginners, what would you pick?
>Yes, this is for _Python for Dummies_, so idioms that aren't in the
>Cookbook are also fine.

Constants

Static methods / Class methods

Bunch

TaskQueue (Queue for easy and safe multithreading)

A decorator for type checking of function arguments, and/or for
require/ensure, and/or for similar features of other languages that people
find missing in Python.

Properties and in particular lazy properties. Why and how to avoid
getters/setters.

Dynamically import a module (name known at runtime, may or may not be
present).

Unittest/doctest.