After reading the "which book" threads, looking to the references of the page aforementioned and reading reviews on the books at Amazon.com...the two finalists were of course the one from Lutz and the one from Chun...a couple of comments here and there, tipped the scale towards Chun's Python Programming from the Core Series...I really like it!
Sure, the book is huge ( over 1000 pages ) but it is a rather easy reading (then again I already knew a few other programming languages) and it covers the kind of details about the language the I enjoy learning about...origin of things, history/evolution, why something is done the way it is (performance issues), code snippets here and then a break down of such code in plain English; at the end of a chapter a table with a summary of the statements/functions/methods covered, etc., etc. etc. Really a great book, I highly recommend it. gsal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list