http://us.pycon.org/...chedule/event/38/

The slides (114 jpegs) are very well done and quite entertaining, and the paper is very informative if you're interested in practical aspects of making "real" cross-platform applications in Python.

(Via Mike's blog - http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/)

Cheers,
Scott.
(Who is still a Python novice.)