> For someone with some programming experience, *Learning Python* has 
some
> good discussion. *Core Python Programming* is an excellent book 
covering
> the basics and an introduction to some more intermediate topics. These
> days I find *Core Python Programming* and *Programming Python* to be 
an
> awesome combination. *Core* seems like a great introductory textbook,
> and *Programming Python (2nd edition)* is like a big, thick tutorial 
on
> real world Python.

What programming experience do you have? What do you want to / need to 
program?
Mark Lutz is an excellent writer: "Learning Python" is good as it 
covers some of the problems people with programming experience have 
when they start learning Python and "Programming Python" (both 
editions) goes into good detail on a wide range of topics: the second 
edition is particularly good on internet based work. But you might get 
more out of the "Python standard library" from Fredrik Lundh: the core 
Python language is easily learnt, but it's the extension via the 
library which makes Python so interesting. Martin von Loewis book is 
also very thorough: if you read German. What I'm missing is a good 
introduction to object oriented programming with Python for people new 
to both and the online documentation should include more examples.

Charlie


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