suggestions between these two books

[John Salerno]

Hi all. I'm fairly new to programming and I thought I'd like to try 
Python. I'm trying to decide between these two books:

Learning Python (O'Reilly)
Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional (APress)

and I was hoping you might have some suggestions. LP seems to be a good 
intro, but the other was published only a month ago and covers 2.4. So 
one question would be, is 2.2 different enough from 2.4 to warrant 
getting the newer book for that reason?

I might end up getting both eventually, but to start with I'm not sure 
which to choose.

Thanks!