By Richard G. Baldwin. Separate lessons teach programming basics. Free online, fee download files.

A Python tutorial originally written for the modding community of Firaxis' Civilization. Useful to beginners with little or no programming knowledge.

By Fredrik Lundh. Official tutorial for Tkinter, standard Python interface to Tk GUI toolkit; widget configuration, styling; function/method bindings to widget events; documents all Tkinter widgets, classes. Formats: PDF, HTML.

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

A tutorial that teaches common Python programming idioms used by experienced programmers, but may not be obvious to newcomers.

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 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.

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...

A guide to Python programming idioms, and suggestions for writing more elegant Python programs.

This site contains materials from a 13 week course for learning Python and CGI. Suited for self-study.