Today at lunch a colleague asked me about Python, and my knee-jerk response was: "Oh, you should check out Learn Python the Hard Way" -my favourite. Now I see there is a brouhaha or so about the Python 3 stance by @zedshaw . I have been a bit out of the loop on this one. :-(
Yep, the Python and Django communities are currently the most toxic authoritarian communities in open source. People were literally *scared* to stand up and tell them it wasn't right. In a functioning community nobody should be afraid to raise their voice.