[newbie] Buying an introductory/reference text

[The Jetman]

Brad Fonseca <linuxbrad at rogers.com> wrote in message news:<Mu5g9.1702$U_.1021 at news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>...
> Greetings!
> 
> I'm looking for a few opinions on the above subject.  I'm a computer 
> science student who has had some introductory lectures on Python and I've 
> done some very basic mucking around with.  I'm looking for a clear 
> reference and/or introductory text.  Any suggestions would be nice.  I have 
> looked at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/IntroductoryBooks but 
> there appears to be a number of good books to choose from there.
> 
> Regards,

Can't go wrong w/ Programming Python 2ndEd by Lutz from O'Reilly.  Here's 
a sample chapter.  If you can only afford a single book, this mite be it....Jet

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python2/chapter/ch15.html