Python for Programmers

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The tutorials on this page are aimed at people who have previous experience with other programming languages (C, Perl, Lisp, Visual Basic, etc.). Also of potential interest are such related Beginners Guides as BeginnersGuide/Overview and BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers, and the tips in MovingToPythonFromOtherLanguages.

Python Tutorial This tutorial is part of Python's documentation set and is updated with each new release.
Basic to Advanced Tutorial A good tutorial on Python especially for the beginners.
Python Essential Reference (book) If you want a highly compressed K&R-style 'just the facts' overview, David Beazley's "Python Essential Reference" covers practically all of the language in about a hundred pages.
Wikibook:Python Programming
Wikiversity:Python The Wiki(anything) information about Python.
Instant Python A minimal crash course by Magnus Lie Hetland.
Google's Python Class - Google's Python tutorial for "people with a little bit of programming experience"
Python 2 & 3 Quick-Guides A fast and efficient guide, with many examples, for quickly learning many tricks of Python.
Python Programming for Beginners A short introduction to writing command-line applications in Python by Jacek Artymiak.
Python 101 - Beginning Python and Python 201 - (Slightly) Advanced Python Two self-training courses from Dave Kuhlman. Python 101 introduces the basic data types, and 201 covers particular tasks such as parsing text and writing unit tests.
Python Short Course A set of course slides by Richard P. Muller of Caltech that are aimed at scientific users. For example, the first example is a script to process output from a quantum chemistry simulation.
Learn Python in 10 minutes
Python for Science Course material written by Konrad Hinsen for an introduction to Python aimed at biologists.
Software Carpentry: lectures aimed at scientists and engineers.
You can find a variety of Python tutorials on Code Teacher.
ComparingTypes A quick look at some common programming types for python and other languages
Python for Programmers - for "Professional programmers who need to learn Python "
A basic Python Tutorial that goes into some interesting features and examples.
Python Koans Learn Python through TDD
Intro to Python - A Brief Presentation about Python mainly aimed at experienced programmers. Might be nice as a first pass over the language.
Python Course - This online Python course is aiming at beginners and with advanced topics at experienced programmers as well.

Python Video Tutorials

uDemy's - Learn Python (for Beginners)
Google's Python class
MIT's 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming (in Python)
TheNewBoston Python Tutorials Recommended for novice programmers.
'Getting started with Python' blog series at ShowMeDo, includes articles on 'Python Development Environments' and 'Python Under-The-Hood'
ShowMeDo.com/videos/Python: Over 240 Python programming screencasts, most are free, most are a part of Club ShowMeDo, all will teach you about Python programming:
- Python 101 - easygui and csv - Aimed at new/intermediate Pythonistas showing how to build a full application in Python (part of the Club)
- Python Development on XP (9 videos, part of the Club) Aimed at new/intermediate Pythonistas
- A Guide to Python Resources on the Web (2 videos)
- Einführung in die Programmierung mit Python (14 videos - German)
- Python GUI Programming with wxPython (3 videos)
- The Khan Academy computer science playlist teaches Python.
  
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Just look it up on Python-Issues. My own view is that it makes my job as a programmer much easier than most other languages because of all the stuff that Python takes care of: memory management, platform dependencies, etc.