[Tutor] failing to learn python

[Kent Johnson]

Payal Rathod wrote:
>> What kind of real life problems are you interested in? You might like 
> 
> I am a parttime sys admin so I want system admin problem which usually I 
> do through shell scripts like parsing logs, generating reports, greping 
> with regexes etc.
> The only thing I don't want is silly problems like generate fibonnacci 
> series, add numbers frm 0-n etc. non required silly stuff.

Take a look at the Python Cookbook:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python

Dive into Python is not targeted at beginners but it is available online 
and does have real-world examples:
http://diveintopython.org/

Kent