I suggest you widen your search and you take a look at Chris Fehily's Python book. It is one of Peachpit Press's Visual Quickstart Guide books. The reason I suggest this book is it provides a lot more short examples of basic Python code than the two in your list.
Howard John Salerno wrote: > Hi all. I'm fairly new to programming and I thought I'd like to try > Python. I'm trying to decide between these two books: > > Learning Python (O'Reilly) > Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional (APress) > > and I was hoping you might have some suggestions. LP seems to be a good > intro, but the other was published only a month ago and covers 2.4. So > one question would be, is 2.2 different enough from 2.4 to warrant > getting the newer book for that reason? > > I might end up getting both eventually, but to start with I'm not sure > which to choose. > > Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
