2 question from a python newbie!

[Tim Peters]

[G. Willoughby]
> i'm not a total programming newbie just a python newbie  :)
> ill check out that site and them, thar books.

Start by working your way through the tutorial that comes with Python.  It
may be all you need.

Else O'Reilly's "Learning Python" is a very good intro for people coming
from other languages.

> P.S. so python is really used as a scripting language and
> nothing more?

Nope.