If you're a bookish type, I found Magnus Lie Hetland's "Beginning Python" excellent. It's really more than a beginners books. I came to Python with a scripting background--mostly lightweight OS stuff (Applescript, DOS) as well as a lot of lightweight application programming (Filemaker, SQL, VBA for Excel, etc) and I got a lot out of the book.
It covers the basics for a true beginner, but not in a dumbed-down way. It's also well indexed & somewhat useful as a reference for the most common things. Mark Pilgrim's "Dive Into Python" comes highly recommended, and is available on-line. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
