Relative Slackware n00b here. Just installed 13.1 64bit on my laptop. In an effort to keep things slim, I neglected to install the 'D' group....didn't figure I would be doing any developing (call me a literalist). I install Wicd and find that Python is a dependency. What is the easiest way for me to make this happen? Should I just install the python txz or will there be more dependencies that could be solved easier with a script?

I don't think you'd be doing any harm by installing that package and then rebooting. But unless you're running on one of the original Asus EEE machines, with 2 GB SSD, you shouldn't really ever doing anything less than a full install. That way you're guaranteed that all dependencies are resolved. And hard disk is cheap these days - a full install of Slackware probably ends up around 5 to 6 GB. That's nothing compared to modern disk disk drives - even in laptops.

Oh - and by the way - if you're ever going to learn a programming language, you'd be hard-pressed to do better than Python :-)

You'll certainly need some of the D group if you want to install any SlackBuilds.