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we are teaching a whole bunch of java and C# people python. What is the best resource to get them up to speed quickly? Is there one got to have book or tutorial that people could recommend?

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Python in a Nutshell by Alex Martelli

Prasoon Saurav
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I had also liked

pyfunc
+1 for this. Really a good book and its free.
Adeel Ansari
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You might find this thread useful.

Adeel Ansari
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What is the best resource to get them up to speed quickly?

I'd get a consultant in for a day of training. Learning from scratch is hard. Learning is quicker when you know the basics.

Tony Ennis
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Along with some introductory book you can use: http://python.computersci.org/Main/TableOfContents which compares java with python at every topic.

tushartyagi
And while this shows how python is better than Java, it still shows the differences between the two languages.http://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/category/java-and-python/
tushartyagi