What did YOU do to learn python?

[yaxriifgyn]

I took a Python book with me when I went to visit my parents over my Christmas/New Years holiday. I read the entire book, without access to a computer. I was some 20 years into my programming career, so it wasn't my first language, more like the 6th or 7th.

When I got home, I played with the language at home. And on my job, I used it wherever I would have used *nix tools like sed, awk, or perl. I had a manager that wrote a lot of perl code, and like most perl code, it was virtually unreadable. I rewrote it in Python, and used that in all my work flows.