What Python books to you recommend to beginners?

[songbird]

Stefan Ram wrote:
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  thank you.  :)

  as references those are useful, but howabout 
something a bit more conceptual or design oriented?

  i have a pretty good idea about various language
features or things to try, but i need a little more
higher level view of how to go about building a
python program.

  i can hack stuff together and it works, but it
doesn't look pretty...  :)


  songbird