Python Training
USA
[http://home.earthlink.net/~python-training/ Mark Lutz] is probably the most-experienced Python trainer. He provides both private on-site classes, and public seminars.
[http://cyberwebconsulting.com Wesley Chun] is also a well-known Python trainer, engineer, and author with significant experience (20+ years programming, writing and teaching). He teaches intro and advanced Python courses, and offers both public courses as well as private corporate training. As a full-time senior software engineer who also teaches as a passion, he brings both enthusiasm and technical expertise to the table, delivering to attendees not only the material, but also real-world experiences and DOs-n-DON'Ts.
[http://www.holdenweb.com/ Steve Holden] teaches both introductory and advanced Python classes as well as tailored tutorials. Starting in 2008 he plans to offer a regular schedule of public classes in Washington, DC.
[http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/course_descriptions.html Dave Kuhlman] teaches introductory Python courses.
[http://bignerdranch.com/classes/python.shtml Python Bootcamp] is a five-day, all-inclusive training course taught by [http://bignerdranch.com/instructors/beazley.shtml Dave Beazley] at the [http://bignerdranch.com/ Big Nerd Ranch] - Atlanta, GA.
[http://www.enthought.com/ Enthought, Inc.] is a scientific computing company based in Austin, TX. Training courses range from simple topics in numerical computing with Python to advanced topics in parallelization, optimization, [http://www.scipy.org SciPy]/[http://numpy.scipy.org NumPy], and C/C++/Fortran extension module creation.
[http://www.ironfroggy.com/ Calvin Spealman] offers private tutoring for general programming and problem specific assistance.
[http://www.stratolab.com/ Stratolab] teaches Python for the purpose of writing video games. Clients are mostly middle and high school students. Stratolab is located in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, NY.
CameronLaird occasionally teaches classes on advanced Python topics--Python for process control, Python with LDAP, and so on.
Canada
[http://furius.ca/training/ Martin Blais] teaches introductory and advanced classes anywhere you're willing to fly him to. Classes are available in english and french.
Europe
[http://home.earthlink.net/~python-training/ Mark Lutz] also teaches classes in Europe, Canada, Mexico, and other locations.
[http://www.grahamellis.co.uk/ Graham Ellis] teaches public and private courses in the UK and private courses elsewhere in Europe on behalf of [http://www.wellho.net/ Well House Consultants]
[http://www.clocksoft.com/ Clockwork Software Systems] run public scheduled and private courses mainly in the UK. Their sister company [http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/training/python_training/ The Linux Emporium] offer no-frills Python training courses which can be purchased on-line. The tutors for these courses, John Pinner and David Chan, are practising Python programmers.
[http://www.python-academy.com The Python Academy] Offers regular courses for beginners without prior programming knowledge as well as for programmers. The courses are held in [http://www.python-academy.de German] as well as in [http://www.python-academy.com English] at Python Academy's teaching center in Leipzig, Germany or in-house across Europe.
[http://www.qtrac.eu Mark Summerfield] provides Python and PyQt training, research, and consultancy in English, primarily in the UK.
[http://chrisarndt.de/about.html Christopher Arndt] is an independent software developer and Linux consultant based in [http://wiki.python.de/pyCologne Cologne, Germany]. He provides general Python, TurboGears and Linux training in English or German language all over Europe on request. For further information write an email to chris at chrisarndt dot de.
Despite [http://www.deitel.com/training/python/python_1.html this notice] Deitel & Associates are not themselves offering Python training. Inquiries about Python training that they receive are forwarded to other training organizations.
[http://www.logilab.fr/formations/ Logilab] offers Python training in France and Europe.
[http://www.kloster.se/kurser/k7026.html Klosterdata] offers Python training in Sweden and other Nordic Countries. The teacher, Fredrik Lundh, has long and deep experience from the Python language. He has taken part in the development of the language and used it for over ten years.
[http://worldcookery.com/Training Philipp von Weitershausen] offers Zope training all over Europe and the Americas. He is the author of the standard Zope textbook [http://worldcookery.com Web Component Development with Zope 3]. Courses can be held in English, German or Spanish.
Latin America
[http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/facundo/cursoPython.html Facundo Batista] teaches introduction and advanced courses of Python to different types of organization (universities, schools, enterprises) in Argentina and other locations.
LucianoRamalho teaches Python in the context of Zope and Plone training offered by [http://simplesconsultoria.com.br Simples Consultoria]. Ramalho also created the [http://turing-club.org Turing Club], which promotes computer programming as a hobby and uses Python in many of its activities.
[http://www.cosperu.com Alfonso de la Guarda] The COS is the first Center that offers free online flash courses about FLOSS, including streaming video on real time. The courses are many: python basics, advance, turbogears, django, gtk, wxglade, etc. Their director, Alfonso de la Guarda, is python programmer since 1990 and has develop many GPL applications as: sisventi, sisgerpy, itv, edukt and recently is working with OLPC.
[http://www.trianguli.com.br Trianguli Software Livre] A free software company, offers Python training in many skills (from basic to advanced or custom courses to special needs), Django, Twisted and other Python services. The founder, Christiano Anderson is Python programmer and free software evangelist.
India
[http://www.dancingbison.com Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises] offers Python training courses in India and also worldwide via the Internet using email for lesson delivery, IM (Google Talk or Yahoo Messenger) for interactive sessions. He's a developer with many years experience, has published articles [http://www.packtpub.com/article/Using_xtopdf on Python] and [http://www.dancingbison.com/about.html other topics], and is the creator of the open source PDF creation / conversion toolkit, [http://www.dancingbison.com/products.html xtopdf], which is written in Python.
Internet
[http://showmedo.com/videos/python ShowMeDo] has been building a collection of on-line tutorial videos for over 16 months (wiki: ShowMeDo). Most of our videos are free. We have a new set of pay-to-own videos in the works which allow you to send questions to the author for 1-on-1 advice.
Public training courses presented by these trainers are listed on the PythonEvents page
Before creation of this page, CameronLaird maintained [http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.python/python_training.html a private one] on the same subject.