Good Programming Books to Teach Programmers New Languages?
enduser: Programming in Lua is an excellent example of what you're looking for. The first edition is available online at http://lua.org/pil/. Slashdot has a good review of the Second Edition at http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/25/147203.For Python, I believe you're looking for http://www.diveintopython.org/