[Techtalk] Perl/Python textbooks.

[fenchurch at exorsus.net]

Hello,

I know a little bit of scripting - not very much, and what I do do is
mostly yanked from MSDN and kludged around a bit. But I would like to
learn how to do it properly, and I would really, really like the
properness NOT to be VBScript.

Can anyone recommend some textbooks or learning resources (web based is
fine) for Perl and/or Python? I can read code more complicated than I can
write myself but I don't have much programming experience overall. A bit
of java, no more.

Thanks in advance.
Fen.