Great Python books for the beginner

[André]

On Jan 12, 4:04 pm, Landon <projecteclip... at gmail.com> wrote:
> One thing I wonder about is the examples these books use to teach the
> concepts. I found myself really attached to K&R because the end of
> section projects were utilities that I would find be able to find
> useful in day to day work such as a version of wc and a program that
> would take collapse all consecutive whitespace in a document into one
> space. I could just use the projects from K&R, but I imagine a Python
> book would have a better selection that highlight Python's abilities.
>
> On another note, I would prefer to have a paper book so I don't have
> to keep switching back and forth between documents on my computer.

You don't need to switch back and forth ... if you use Crunchy!

http://code.google.com/p/crunchy

To see it in action, http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=1430000&fromSeriesID=143

(the third video in that series shows how to quickly get started using
the official Python tutorial).

André