Freebie: Python 101 by Michael Driscoll (requires email)

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Free for a limited time (today only I think). No idea if the book is any good or not, but I know there is some general interest in Python around here so thought it might be worth posting...

Go to...
https://leanpub.com/python_101/c/48hours

Add the book to cart and provide an email address while checking out. You'll also be given the option to create a password for the site, but it's not required.

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Python 101 by Michael Driscoll
Blurb:

Learn how to program with Python 3 from beginning to end. My book is made primarily for beginners. However, at least two-thirds of it is aimed at intermediate programmers. You may be wondering how that works. The book will be split into five parts.

Part One
The first part is the beginner section. In it you will learn all the basics of Python. From Python types (strings, lists, dictionaries) to conditional statements to loops. You will also learn about comprehensions, functions and classes and everything in between!

Part Two
This section will be a curated tour of the Python Standard Library. The intent isn't to cover everything in it, but instead it is to show the reader that you can do a lot with Python right out of the box. We'll be covering the modules I find the most useful in day-to-day programming tasks, such as os, sys, logging, threads, and more.

Part Three
An all intermediate section covering lambda, decorators, properties, debugging, testing and profiling.

Part Four
Now things get really interesting! In part four, we will be learning how to install 3rd party libraries (i.e. packages) from the Python Package Index and other locations. We will cover easy_install and pip. This section will also be a series of tutorials where you will learn how to use the packages you download. For example, you will learn how to download a file, parse XML, use an Object Relational Mapper to work with a database, etc.

Part Five
The last section of the book will cover how to share your code with your friends and the world! You will learn how to package it up and share it on the Python Package Index (i.e. how to create an egg or wheel). You will also learn how to create executables using py2exe, bb_freeze, cx_freeze and PyInstaller. Finally you will learn how to create an installer using Inno Setup.

His second book, Python 201, can be had for 1/2 off ($6.50) using this link...
https://leanpub.com/python201/c/50percent