Book Recomendations

[Tro]

On Saturday 01 March 2008, Ira Solomon wrote:
> I am an experienced programmer (40 years).  I've done Algol (if you've
> heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a
> few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate).
> I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a slew of books.
> Too many.
> I'd like a recommendation as to which books are considered to be the
> cream of the crop.
> I know there are tutorials on the web, but, again, I don't know the
> quality.  I would appreciate recommendations on those as well.

The official tutorial is required reading. After that, Dive Into Python 
(http://diveintopython.org/).

Cheers,
Tro