For intermediate or advanced Python, David Beazely's books are great. I don't know of any beginning Python books as good as Learning Perl was back in the day.

For intermediate or advanced Python, David Beazely's books are great. I don't know of any beginning Python books as good as Learning Perl was back in the day. Python has gotten to be a confusing language and maybe not even the best choice for beginners any more though. What is the best choice then? I don't know. Each is terrible in its own way.