Good introductory book?

[Kottiyath]

On Dec 3, 7:44 pm, "Ken D'Ambrosio" <ken.dambro... at segway.com> wrote:
> Hi, all.  I'm getting ready to do some projects in Python, and I've cut my
> teeth a little bit, but I've found the "Learning|Programming Python" books
> from O'Reilly to be more-or-less useless (to my surprise -- I'm usually an
> O'Reilly fan).  I really, really like "Python Essential Reference", but
> it's -- well, more of a reference than an intro.  So, an introductory text
> that actually assumes some previous programming experience (as opposed to
> "Learning Python" which must be the most slowly-paced programming book
> ever) would be terrific.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions!
>
> -Ken

Dive into python is a very good one. It is free too.
http://diveintopython.org/

Try it out.
If you want more of examples of how everything is done, then Python
Cookbook is another one.
You can get many recipes at http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/
too - the book is just selected recipes from this site.


Regards
K