You _gotta_ be kidding, right...? The Beginner's Guide link takes you right to the BeginnersGuide page which starts with the reassurance that Python is easy to learn even if you're new to programming and continues with a zillion useful links. The Python Books link takes you to a huge
While I agree that there is much useful content on the official Python site, I particularly hate the BeginnersGuide and much of the resulting introduction pages. Often when I happily refer Python to someone who wants to learn a simple language, I go to the Python site and imagine where I would start if I were them. Once I get to the BeginnersGuide I don't see anything immediately useful, and when I look for it I get frustrated.
-- Brian Beck Adventurer of the First Order -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
