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The Python Standard Library by Example by Doug Hellmann is a great way to get you more comfortable using the various modules in the standard library. I believe the book was inspired by a series of blog posts Hellmann previously wrote each week on Python topics called Python Module of the Week. Both the blog and the book itself present the material in the same way - basically, each chapter or blog post covers a specific module in the standard library with examples of how to use its key features.
If you're looking for an intro to programming in Python I would suggest Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python For a general language reference Python Essential Refernce For an introduciton to the included modules The Python Standard Library by example which includes a lot of simple code examples. The book Core Python Application Programming is a great subset of the above books with less over all coverage but greater detail in the example code. And last but not least, for advanced algorithm info Annotated Algorithms in Python
I'm thinking about this book as a next step http://www.amazon.co.uk/Python-Standard-Library-Example-Developers/dp/0321767349/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418375089&sr=8-1&keywords=python+standard+library What do you think about that?
That was going to be my recommendation too. It's a very good reference work that contains lots of good, idiomatic code.
The python.org docs are surprisingly good at times as well. The data model section of the Python Language Reference is worth a quick read even by experienced Python developers.
For packaging, the Python Packaging Authority is doing some great work. The Python Packaging User Guide is a nice read that fills a large hole in the packaging space. Now with Pip in 3.4 by default and PyPA making rapid progress, it looks like there is an end in sight to the slow-motion train-wreck-in-progress that has been the Python packaging & install landscape for many years now.
The Python Standard Library by Example and Python Module of the Week have been mentioned already, but they are outstanding and should definitely be consulted, although they are unfortunately Python 2 -- I'm not sure if pymotw.com/3/ is the beginning of a new PyMOTW for Python3 or an aborted reboot under Python3.
If you would like to learn about asynchronous programming and the Twisted framework, there is a really great and extensive set of tutorials by Dave Peticolas: Twisted Introduction | krondo./?page_id=1327)
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Basically the standard library in any language is a bunch of APIs that allow you to do stuff that you would have had to figure out how to code yourself. It's why things like github are so popular because you can go look at how someone else coded something and try to improve upon their API and sometimes these open source APIs turn out better than what is built into a language's standard library.
You said they know how to email, teach them about the email libs and show them how to build a program that will email something for them.