[mikhael]

Oh no. You definately don't want to try to learn the two at the same time. Just look out, if you do decide to learn python, white space is semantically signifigant. Its no big deal if you're consistent with your indent style, but it can bite you on the ass if you're not careful.

Of course, the exception trace you get from python is pretty damned helpful when it comes to finding errors like that.

[Setekh]

My brother officially says of Python and Perl: "If you've already started, learn Perl and use it for 6 months. Then move onto Python and never look back - everything you want to do in Perl you can do in Python, and there are less semantic traps you can fall into."

[mikhael]

There's one thing Perl has over python: regular expressions. The Perl regex mechanism is one of the finest I've ever seen and far easier than the Python mechanism.

I liked a quote a read somewhere about Python v. Perl: If Python is executable psuedocode, Perl is executable line noise...