Help for a complete newbie

[Steve Bergman]

You can also access this group through Google Groups:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python

which has nice search features.

I found O'Reilly's "Learning Python" to be helpful in combination with
O'Reilly's "Python in a Nutshell".  Learning python is a nice
introduction to Python but is (intentionally) *far* from complete.
Python In a Nutshell is a reference work.  The two complement each
other nicely.

Both are a bit out of date.  The current python version is 2.4.
Learning Python covers 2.3.  Nutshell covers up to 2.2.

One of these days Alex will come out with a 2nd Edition of Nutshell and
there will be much rejoicing. ;-)