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[namekuseijin]

I was able to get a friend into Python over a Google Chat.  I pointed 
him to the downloads page, waited for him to install, then covered the 
basics in quite a few steps (syntax, conditionals, loops, function 
definition and application, classes and methods, lists, dicts and 
comprehensions).

He loved the language and used it to solve some problems in the Euler 
Project. :)

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