I've been programming Ruby pretty extensively for the past four years or so, and I'm extremely comfortable with the language. For no particular reason, I've decided to learn some Python this week. Is there a specific book, tutorial, or reference that would be well-suited to someone coming from a nearly-identical language, or should I just "Dive into Python"?
Thanks!
A safe bet is to just dive into python (skim through some tutorials that explain the syntax), and then get coding. The best way to learn any new language is to write code, lots of it. Your experience in Ruby will make it easy to pick up python's dynamic concepts (which might be harder to get used to for say a Java programmer).
Try a python tutorial or book on learning python.