I am just beginning to learn how to program for the first time. I have decided that I want to learn Python as my first programming language. Now I was wondering if anyone with experience could give me some advice with the following :

1] Good books to purchase to learn and understand the language
2] Sites that would be of use to me to further my understanding

Any suggestions and advice would be great.

P.S. Yes I have searched the site for any "Python" posts but there only seems to be a few. A lot of the info that I have read seems to be written towards people who have programming experience.

Thank You for the help ....