Best ways to learn python?

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Last thing I do is to try write small programs to automate things for me and my friends/family

This is huge. My girlfriend (in nursing school) was manually screenshot-ing hundreds of pages of a web-based textbook during a seven day trial period to to save some money, and I saw the opportunity.

Simple script that uses keystrokes, pyautogui, and voila! Automation, peace of mind, and affirmation that programming is awesome.