• multi-paradigm: object-oriented, imperative, functional, procedural, reflective;
• eager evaluation.

• duck;
• dynamically typed;
• strongly typed.

• Python Programming Language – Official Website;
• Style Guide for Python Code (PEP 0008) (to read before programming with Python);
• The Python Challenge (learning is fun);
• Popular Python recipes.

• Dive Into Python, by Mark Pilgrim;
• Expert Python Programming, by Tarek Ziadé;
• Programming in Python 3, by Mark Summerfield;
• Dive Into Python 3, by Mark Pilgrim.

Various resources.