Recommend Python branch and literature

Question

Python

I'm currently working with the Java platform and, for obvious reasons, I'm more interested in Groovy as a scripting language.

I had to get acquainted with Python because of the institute. So that time and energy are not wasted, I want to use it, but not climb into the jungle. I see it as administration scripts under Linux and possibly a procedural extension for Postgresql. Need your opinions, habra-people, about the branch of language and literature?

Answer 1

Branch 2, a liter in Google shaft. There are book recommendations on python.org itself .

Answer 2

There is such a book.
Thread, probably the second. The third one also mostly works, but there are fewer libraries for it.
For administration, the shell is easier, if only because the standard.
It is quite possible to use the python “without getting in”, there are at least unobvious designs.

Answer 3

python.su

Answer 4

Since the previous similar question has not changed its point of view (this is a subtle hint at the use of search).
habrahabr.ru/qa/2380/#answer_9830

Answer 5

Here is a branch from Alexei Zuzin http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/python/61905/

Answer 6

diveintopython is definitely
Branch 2 for development, 3 for deployment if converted from the second. There are few libraries in the 3rd, for example, paramiko, pycrypto, gevent and a bunch of other libraries that allow you to do very fast things.

Answer 7

For starters, a tutorial by Rossum and Otkidach.
A good continuation is to study the documentation of a particular framework. There are many of them for different tasks - web, interfaces, games, and so on.