Python as a language is great. Its the GUI frameworks that always stop my advances into Python...there are about half a dozen of them and they come in various flavours of broke, ugly, incompatible, difficult or abandoned.

So I end up downloading VS C# Express...

Also, Project Euler for "Practice Exercises and Projects", and vim+python-mode and geany for IDE's.

python-forum.org and #python on irc.freenode.org for getting specific help.

If you are already a programmer, official tutorial will be the best and fastest http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/

The page list some other domain as official python tutorial: http://homepage.mac.com/s_lott/books/python.html That's not the official python tutorial(it's giving me an access error - no ideas what's hosted there).

I took Udacity's cs101 class as a (lazy) way to get introduced to python. While I felt like it was a very well done introduction to computer science, it wasn't a very effective way to learn a language as it made a deliberate effort to decouple python and cs (and rightfully so). I would suspect that this is also true of the other MOOCs listed here.

Another good resource :- http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

I like http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest enough to point it out specifically (it's linked far down the page).

Combined with PEP8, it's a fantastic stylistic resource.

I miss Dive Into Python. It was awesome.