An Introduction to Python

This tutorial provides an introduction to Python, an easy to learn object oriented programming language. It covers the 2.5 release of Python.

The author of this manual, Guido van Rossum, is the inventor of Python. Fred L. Drake, Jr. is the official editor of the Python documentation.

For each copy of this manual sold $1 is donated to the Python Software Foundation.

As of January 2010 the total amount donated is $2,689 from the sale of this and other Python manuals.

This book is freely redistributable, under the same license as Python itself.

164 pages. Revised November 2006.
ISBN: 0-9541617-6-9 (ISBN-13: 978-0-9541617-6-7)