Handouts are located here. These will be updated and changed during the fall, and will cover the entire syllabus of the course.
Otherwise, Hans Petter Langtangen's book "Python Scripting for Computational Science", 3rd Edition, Springer Verlag 2008 will be a useful reference for those with scientific calculations in mind. For those wanting something Python literature beyond this, the following books are recommended:
Daryl K. Harms and Kenneth M. McDonald. The Quick Python Book, 2nd edition, Manning publications, 2010.
David M. Beazley. Python Essential reference, 4th edition, Addison-Wesley, 2009.