To expand on this idea: You could somehow combine the official tuturial (or any other good introductory text) and make all the examples in the text 'live'. Maybe use a split screen with the tutorial text on one side and the trypython console on the other. The newbie could then immediately try the example by typing it over himself or by clicking a button 'run in console' next to the example. Target audience should be only the real beginners who are afraid/too lazy to install the complete Python enviroment. Advanced users should be able to do a full install themselves.
Cheers, Bas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
