python, how?!

hi.
i want to learn programming, but in my area there ain't anybody that can help me, so i want to ask for something only, kind of beginners book, or anything, and in a language that is powerfull. i heard of python, but i dont know anything about this. help?

I haven't programmed in a long ass time and I was afraid that I was getting rusty and decided to try to write a maze generator (prim's algorithm) in python a few days ago.
I wasn't successful but I learned a lot about how much I suck and how much I have to relearn and that little things that I'm used to doing the C++/C# way are really awkward in other languages