HELP How do I start Python?

[Toshi Esumi]

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>>> Where is the fabulous tutorial that compares all this stuff?
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>> Mark Lutz is the author of several Python books, the first of which to
>> read is Learning Python.  It's one of several books with pink covers
>> published by O'Reilly.  Others include books about classic shell
>> scripting and the bash shell, which are useful because in practice there
>> is much interaction between the shell and python. Before too long you
>> may find O'Reilly cookbooks for Python and bash useful as well. They're
>> good references to have handy in addition to much other material readily
>> available as documentation and various videos.  MIT OpenCourseWare has
>> lots of introductory python and computer science instruction using
>> python online for extended viewing.
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>> Ken
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> I can heartily recommend the O'Reilly books (the bash one is a handy 
> reference, and the python one I started a week or so ago) My brain is 
> slowly getting there!
>
I recommend "Python for Software Designe" by Allen Downey, which we used 
at University of Washington's certificate program. It takes a little 
different approach from O'Reilly's several books.

Toshi