Any good books on python?

Here are some free and legal online Python book that you might find useful:

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/
http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/

 

+1 for Learn Python the Hard Way.

 

When you do run into a problem and can't solve it, "google" for the solution. If there is a link to the stackoverflow.com site, definitely look at that link. I have found that site to be an excellent source with problem solving (with any language).

 

I realize you are just beginning but try to remember this for the future.

There are very powerful libraries for Python. Either built-in to base Python or third-party libraries. For example, the PIL (Python Imaging Library) is an extremely powerful image processing library that probably covers everything you need in regards to 2-D images and processing.

The bottom line is, check to see if a library can fulfill your requirements before rolling your own implementation.

 

Seconded! There are literally TONS of Python extension libraries that fill most of the common needs. The only problem: Many of them aren't yet 64-bit ready, Python 3-compatible, or both.

 

These are excellent:

http://oreilly.com/python/index.html

 

That's a cool book

I just read through exercise 0. The following quotes are great:

 

Where I work we have been "poised" to jump to Python version 3 for some time now. The reason we are still with 2.x is exactly the quote above. That is, not all the libraries we use are there yet.

I realize the original poster is just learning Python but I hope these discussions we are having now help in the future.

 

Watch these tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mf0h3HphEA&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SPEA1FEF17E1E5C0DA