[mryan]

Learn Python the Hard Way will give you more than enough Python knowledge to get started with Django.

The Django tutorial [1] is very impressive - it will take you from the initial steps to a very basic (but working) web application, exposing various Django concepts along the way.

The Django documentation is so good I learned Python from it - I had never used Python before starting to learn Django. The tutorials and docs on the Django site are better than any of the Django books I have looked at so far.

[1] http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/