Quick Python 2nd Video Edition

The Quick Python Book offers a clear, crisp introduction
to the elegant Python programming language and its
famously easy-to-read syntax. Made for programmers new
to Python, this edition covers features common to other
languages concisely, while introducing Python's
comprehensive standard functions library and unique
features in detail
After exploring Python's syntax, control flow, and basic
data structures, the book shows how to create, test, and
deploy full applications and larger code libraries. It
addresses established Python features as well as the
advanced object-oriented options available in Python 3
Along the way, you'll survey the Python development
landscape, including GUI programming, testing, database
access, and web frameworks
Inside:

Concepts and Python 3 features
Regular expressions and testing
Python tools
All the Python you need nothing you don't

Second edition author Naomi Ceder is Director of
Technology at the Canterbury School in Fort Wayne
Indiana, where she teaches and uses Python. The first
edition was written by Daryl Harms and Kenneth McDonald

This is my favorite Python book...a competent way into
serious Python programming
Edmon Begoli, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Like Python itself, its emphasis is on readability and
rapid development
David McWhirter, Cranberryink