learning python

Linux Tutorial: "I just wrote a review for Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Edition and commented that it seemed as if each successive edition acquired more pages.

In the Linux book's case, it isn't true, but it is true in the case of Lutz's book. In fact, between the 3rd and current edition, the book has expanded some 466 pages.

Good grief, what accounts for such growth?"

A Million Chimpanzees: "Welcome to "Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python".

Not a book about learning Python as such, but an introduction to the discipline of Computer Science with Python as your guide."

I was a programmer for 15+ years and used Perl for 8 or so of those years, so although I'm a newcomer to Python I'm definitely not a newcomer to programming or to scripting languages. When I ordered this book, I was worried that it might be too basic, but...