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[Roger Binns]

Adelein and Jeremy wrote:
> some other language(s). What you do not need (if my thinking is
> correct) is a book about programming using Python. Unfortunately, I
> doubt that such a book exists

The Python Cookbook published by O'Reilly is a very good example
of such a book.  It has something like 200 "recipes" in many
different areas.  All of the recipes are solving a real problem,
and in doing so teach you what is Pythonic, what is available
in the standard library and many good (and some bad) practises.
You can see the complete list at
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythoncook/toc.html

Roger