learning python ...

[Rob Cliffe]

Please don't be put off by your experience so far.  Everyone stumbles 
along the way and runs into "gotchas" when learning a new language.  
Python is a fantastic language for development.  One of my early 
"epiphany" moments was experimenting with different algorithms to try to 
find the right one for a tricky task.  If I remember rightly it took me 
about 2 weeks, on and off.  I could never have done it in any flavour of 
C in 6 months, or at all for that matter.  Python's built-in lists, 
dictionaries and memory management saved so much donkey work and made it 
so easy to throw ideas around!
Regards
Rob Cliffe