newbie question: for loop within for loop confusion

[John Salerno]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> En Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:51:30 -0300, John Salerno <johnjsal at gmailNOSPAM.com> escribió:
> 
>> takayuki wrote:
>>
>>> I'm early on in my python adventure so I'm not there yet on the strip
>>> command nuances.    I'm reading "How to think like a python
>>> programmer" first.  It's great.
>>>
>>> Then "Learning python".  I've read parts of Dive into Python and will
>>> work through it fully when I'm a little farther along.
>> Yeah, I really recommend Learning Python for getting the basics first.
>> It's very thorough in that regard. Dive Into Python is *not* for
>> beginners. I'm sorry if people disagree, but it's just not.
> 
> Sure, the author himself says so at the very beginning in http://www.diveintopython.org "Dive Into Python is a Python book for experienced programmers."
> 

I know, but I just hear so many people recommend that book for people 
who want to learn the language.