What is your favorite tutorial(s) for learning Python programming in a Windows environment. Every tutorial I've read emphasizes heavily on Linux idiosyncrasies, which in some cases obscures what is being taught. Thank you.

Hmm, well the links to the tutorials on pythons official site are generally good except for a few. I used the 'A Byte of Python' tutorial to learn it, having previous knowledge in other languages.

There are also some simpler ones that assume no previous programming knowledge, but I cant remember which ones they were.

I learnt it from this tutorial. I don't know if it's what you're looking for.

Thank you all.

I found this book and it's just right.

I'm trying to learn it now.

just like installing sun's java its probably a good idea to set your class path.

or in the likes of windows XP:

To add or change the values of environment variables
Open Computer Management (Local).
In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Local), and then select Properties.
On the Advanced tab, click Environment Variables.
Select a user in the User variables for list.
Click the name of the user or system variable you want to change or delete.
Click New to add a new variable name and value.
Click Edit to change a current variable name and value.
Click Delete to remove a variable name and value.
Notes

To open Computer Management, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Click Performance and Maintenance, click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
You must be recognized as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group on your computer and on the computer you are managing to perform this task.
You can view or change system properties on a remote computer or a local computer. To access a remote computer, right-click Computer Management (Local), click Connect to another computer, and then select the computer you want to connect to in the list.
Changes in the registry are saved so they are available automatically the next time you start your computer.
Changes do not affect programs that are running and may not take effect until you restart your computer.

Steve, CLASSPATH has nothing to do with Python and is purely a Java thing. Perhaps you meant adding the Python directory to the PATH environment variable, so that you can run Python from the DOS command line, although that is not very important these days.

yes. thats what i meant.