When to choose which syntax to install your own Python package

Plotting for LaTeX documents with matplotlib

To use $\LaTeX$ efficiently you should use raw-strings (r"$\LaTeX^2$") otherwise you need to escape the backslashes with backslashes. To use $\LaTeX$ and format-strings you need to escape all curly braces with curly braces, e. g. r"{} $\textrm{{nah}}$".format("escaping").

Standard official …

Capture the standard out for debugging or for wrappers

Use functions where you have the name as a string and create variables where you also only have the name as a string

Why to use Python 3 and how to convert your code

How to fit curves to data in Python