Python is a very popular programming language among Financial Engineers. This is the book for beginners, hope you guys like it. Here is some information about this book,
Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner
by Michael Dawson
Premier Press @ 2003
ISBN:1592000738

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1-Getting Started: The Game over Program
Chapter 2-Types, Variables, and Simple I/O: The Useless Trivia Program
Chapter 3-Branching, while Loops, and Program Planning: The Guess My Number Game
Chapter 4-for Loops, Strings, and Tuples: The Word Jumble Game
Chapter 5-Lists and Dictionaries: The Hangman Game
Chapter 6-Functions: The Tic-Tac-Toe Game
Chapter 7-Files and Exceptions: The Trivia Challenge Game
Chapter 8-Software Objects: The Critter Caretaker Program
Chapter 9-Object-Oriented Programming: The Blackjack Game
Chapter 10-GUI Development: The Mad Lib Program
Chapter 11-Graphics: The Pizza Panic Game
Chapter 12-Sound, Animation, and Program Development: The Astrocrash Game
Appendix A-LiveWires Reference
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Sidebars

By the way, the format of this ebook is Compiled HTML Help file (.chm). If you are looking for a pdf, this might not what you want!