[newbie] Buying an introductory/reference text

[Ian Holmes]

jetman516 at hotmail.com (The Jetman) wrote in message news:<a38d43b0.0209121413.1bf274c9 at posting.google.com>...
> 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

Agree with that totally - there is not a bad set of tutorials at 
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Python
that gets you to about the level the books starts at. Python 101 parts
1-8 and OO programming 1 and 2