Looking for resources for making the jump from Java to Python easier and more productive

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In article <1145691651.385835.298600 at u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>,
 "ToddLMorgan" <ToddLMorgan at gmail.com> wrote:

>Are there python specific equivalents to the common Patterns,
>Anti-Patterns and Refactoring books that are so prevalent as
>reccomended reading in C++ and Java?

I don't think they exist. Such books are targeted more towards 
development in a corporate environment, where every proposal has to go 
through multiple layers of management, and nothing is ever done by 
individuals working alone, always by "teams" working on separate parts 
of the project. And also where the end-users don't really get much say 
in how things are supposed to work. It's only in such a high-overhead, 
top-down, cover-your-ass environment that such books are looked on as 
being at all useful. Possibly on the grounds that nobody ever got fired 
for buying them.

I'd say languages like Python and Perl are the absolute antithesis of 
this sort of development culture.