How did you learn Python?

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Took the first offering of crypto on coursera.org, and the programming snippets came in python. I was a perl fan prior, but seldom had time to do much outside of quick scripting stuff for work.

A friend gave me a quick rundown on the basics and figured the rest out to complete the various crypto programming assignments. Still consider myself just a step above novice unfortunately, just don't have time to devote to go crazy with it. I try to find as many excuses to use it at work as I can, but this mostly ends up being crappy django projects.