Which Pyton Book For Newbies?

[John Salerno]

danielx wrote:

> I'm sure you will hear this many times, but that's a great choice ;). I
> really think you'll like Learning Python from O'Reilly Press. The
> authors claim you can read the book even with no prior programming
> experience, which seems plausible having read it. Of course, you
> already have some programming experience, so it should go much more
> smoothly with you. Good luck finding the right book!

I second this, as usual. Learning Python (2nd ed.) is excellent and all 
you need to get started.

But for GUI programming, you'll need more. Tkinter comes with Python and 
is usually considered easy to start using. After a few days with it, I 
decided to simply go all out and learn wxPython instead (wxPython in 
Action is a great book). wxPython is a lot easier than I thought it 
would be, and a much more complete toolkit.

But I think the usual caveat for GUI programming is, is it necessary? 
Would it work just as well to make a website interface to do your work, 
rather than spend the time learning a GUI toolkit and creating a GUI app?