Learning Python

I've been working on learning Python for the last two weeks or so. The main book I'm using is O'Reily's excellent "Python for Unix and System System Administration."[link] One of the things I'm using to learn the language, I'm working through "15 Exercises for Learning a New Programming Language."[link] I'll be posting the exercise and my solution over a few days.

I chose to start with Python because of its code simplicity, power and wide-spread support. It is easily installable on any distro I use, easily interacts with the root OS, and can hook into PHP very easily. My primary use, initially, will be for log analysis on my systems and alerting.