What Python books to you recommend to beginners?

[Brian Oney]

On Wed, 2018-11-28 at 08:44 -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> What do people recommend? The target is Python 3.6 and 3.7. The
> audience at work is a mostly financial/statistical crowd, so exposure
> to things like Pandas would be nice, though I'm sure there are
> dedicated books for just that.

Given your audience "Python for Data Analysis, 2nd Edition" by Wes
McKinney would suit well. The Python tutorial should suit for basic
syntax.

HTH