I know Python but I’d hate to program anything serious in it, because f*** semantic whitespace.
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For that reason, I’d recommend at least checking out other scripting languages like Ruby and Perl before really committing to Python.
Python also has some odd (an uncharitable commentator might say “awkward” and “unintuitive”) features, especially in the way that it treats looping and arrays.