Python 123 introduction

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    dakman> This is great! A excellent tutorial for somone who has prior
    dakman> experience in programming and is starting out in python. My
    dakman> friend keeps wanting me to teach him python, I think this would
    dakman> be the perfect link for him.

I'm not trying to minimize Jeremy's efforts in any way, but how is his
tutorial a significant improvement over the original
(http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/)?

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