Materials from the Python for Digital Humanities Workshop taught on December 13, 2021 for the Boise State University Digital Humanities Group. This 3-hour workshop was created to provide both a very brief introduction to the various capabilities of Python and a small lesson in using Python to pull meaningul insight out of text files.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. This lesson is a conglomeration of the Python for the Humanities course by Dr. William Mattingly, the various Carpentries lessons on Python, and my own experience.

Two files are included:

• Lesson.md: This provides the pre-work necessary and a thorough outline of the workshop with code snippets.
• owyhee-canyonlands-wilderness-B.txt: An OCR'd file from the Boise State University Special Collections and Archives used to facilitate a demonstration of working with text files in Python.

For questions about this lesson, reach out to Elisabeth Shook.