Newbie, need tutorial D/L

[S11001001]

I am only a newbie to python, a perl refugee, in fact. I need a DOWNLOADABLE,
as in one tarball or something, tutorial employing DESCRIPTION. I cannot leave
the internet connection running as I page through the tutorial at python.org,
so I can't go that route. Once I get kernel 2.2.5, I will be able to do
Internet in Linux, so it will probably be alright. But I prefer to learn
offline.

--
Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an
intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
     Steve Ballmer