This is must read if you learned Java before Python:
Python Is Not Java: http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html

griswolf commented: That is an excellent article that really applies to all Python newcomers. +1

This is also a really really should read even if you have never coded a line of Java. Even python 'professionals' might learn one or two things.

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