Title: An Excellent Introduction
Review: I read this book after having read about 160 pages of the O'Reilly "Learning Python". I found Guido van Rossum's introduction to be very well-written. His examples showed some interesting things that "Learning Python" hadn't, such as the pickle library, and he included a clear but brief treatment of Python exception handling. Possibly not the best for a complete beginner, but if you've seen a little Python before, it does a wonderful job. Be aware that this text is available as part of the standard Python documentation, but having the hard copy is friendlier to the eyes and part of the profit goes back to open source.
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