Python has been mentioned in a lot of blogs lately -- Jon's, Sean's, mnot's, Bill's, Tim's, and my own, for example, and of course also in the wonderfully useful Daily Python-URL. I wouldn't call myself a Python expert by any stretch of the imagination, so the other day I picked up another Python book: Mark Pilgrim's "Dive Into Python."
I read about half of it on a flight from Dallas to Boston today. It's easy to read and extremely informative. It doesn't mess around trying to teach you little language features at a snail's pace like most books. Rather, it just keeps throwing code at you -- useful and interesting code, unlike the examples in most books -- and then explaining it in just the right amount of detail. I can't wait to read the rest of it. I highly recommend it to everyone.