some n00b question

[John Salerno]

Omar wrote:

> b) I'm also interested in created GUI's sooner rather than later.  Can
> anyone point me to a fast track to doing GUI's on python?

I recommend reading wxPython in Action. It's a great starter and 
reference to the wxPython GUI toolkit. Tkinter is usually considered 
easier and simpler, but I find it lacking in functionality, and wxPython 
is actually fairly easy to learn.