Reference books/tutorials?

[Mark Higgins]

anthony wrote:
> Can anyone suggest some python/jython reference books/tutorials for a
> newbie who's used to matlab?  Amazon had the Python bible 2.1 fairly
> highly rated.

I'm just getting into python as well; a very usual tome for me was The 
Python Cookbook by Alex Martelli and David Asher. It highlights some 
useful concepts. It also gives lots of example code written by 
experienced python programmers - for me, anyway, that's critical to 
getting my head around the common ways of approaching programming 
problems which help define a language's philosophy.