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SimPy comes with extensive documentation, both for users/application developers (manuals) and for SimPy developers or those users who want to look "behind the scenes" (source code documentation). There are also SimPy tutorials.

SimPy Manuals

bullet"SimPy Simplified", a brief manual for first courses on SimPy and beginning users (html, PDF)
bulletCheatsheet desktop reference  (PDF, spreadsheet)
bulletSimPy core manual - simulation, processes, resources, monitors  (html, PDF)
bulletSimulationTrace manual - tracing of model execution (html)
bulletSimulationRT manual - speed control (html)
bulletSimulationStep manual - stepping event by event (html)
bulletSimPlot manual - output plotting (html)
bulletSimGUI manual - programming the SimPy GUI (html)
bulletSimPy publication quality plotting guide - interfacing SimPy to the external matplotlib plot package (html)

SimPy Sourcecode

bulletCode documentation, automatically generated by Epydoc (html)

Internationalization

    Chinese translations:

bulletSimPy core manual (version 1.6) (traditional Chinese)

SimPy Tutorials

bullet"The Bank" tutorial - modeling queuing and service in a bank (html, PDF)
bullet"The Bank 2" tutorial - modeling queuing and service in a bank, showing the use of the advanced synchronization constructs (html, PDF)
bulletProf. Norman Matloff, "Introduction to the SimPy Discrete-Event Simulation Package", University of California, Davis (an outstanding tutorial developed by a SimPy user and teacher) 
 

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