Newbie Question

[Ivo Woltring]

google on

Dive into Python
and
Text processing in Python

these are very good books (and online gettable 4 free)
but not 4 the absolute beginner

cheerz,
Ivo.

"John Smith" <oldphartyankee at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4C1ed.5243$TU5.3711 at trndny06...
> Aside from the text online, what are the best books for a newbie learning
> python as their first language?
>
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