[newbie] Buying an introductory/reference text

[Padraig Brady]

Brad Fonseca wrote:
> 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.

I've only been doing python for a few days myself
with just online docs, which I find excellent.
If you want a treeware reference, have a look @:
http://www.accu.org/bookreviews/public/reviews/0sb/python.htm

Pádraig.