Book recommendation

[Madhusudan Singh]

Hi

I am trying to teach myself Python. I have extensive prior programming
experience in Fortran, a little in C/C++,  Pascal, etc.

So far, I have been reading online tutorials at www.python.org and a book I
found at the library - Martin Brown's The Complete Reference Python. Is
there a standard classic book to learn from that I could buy ?

Say something like Metcalf and Reid's Fortran 90/95 Explained or Kernighan
and Ritchie's The C Programming Language.