Excerpt from O'Reilly book: Learning Python.

By Mark Lutz, David Ascher. Samples from O'Reilly book. Has manipulating data structures, files, programs; internet programming; JPython, now Jython, Python implementation for the Java platform.

By Josh Cogliati. Evolving tutorial for absolute beginners. Covers many basic, some intermediate topics; many code samples, simple hands-on exercises. [Open Content, public domain]

By Danny Yoo. Visual guide to using IDLE, a simple interactive shell for Python programming. Each step of this tutorial has screenshots for absolute beginners. English, Dutch, German; Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese; Indonesian.

Different PDF versions (A4, US Letter) of a very dense quick reference card for the Python language and some of its main libraries.

This tutorial was written for the absolute beginner. It teaches how to program a computer the quick way.

By Mark Lutz. O'Reilly book sample. Introduces Internet related topics: Zope (web publishing framework), HTMLgen (makes web pages from objects), Jython (Python for Java), XML processing, server pages, Windows web scripting extensions, restricted execu...

Can the UML help Python developers? How about CP4E?

Preliminary tutorial, prepares absolute beginners for other tutorials. Walks reader through installing on Windows, using Integrated DeveLopment Environment (IDLE), writing a simple program.

An Interactive Instruction.