Good introductory book?

[Mike Driscoll]

On Dec 3, 8:44 am, "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

I liked "Beginning Python" by Hetland. There's also "Python Power!" by
Telles, which I think was pretty good. Note that there's not much out
for the 3.0 version yet other than the official docs. You'll probably
have to wait until next year before much is really written/published
about that.

Mike