I have very little experience building software for Windows, and zero experience using the Windows API, but I\'m reasonably familiar with Python. How should I go about learn
" > free resource to learn how to use the windows API (preferably with python)
You may refer Python Programming on Win32 by Mark Hammond and Andy Robinson along with pywin32.
If you are not interested to use pywin32, you can use ctypes — A foreign function library for Python and the Forger's Win32 API Programming Tutorial.
Refer Example Code : Shared Memory with Mutex (pywin32 and ctypes)