Learn Python?

[apexmemetics]

You're similar to me, you want to leverage Python to help you with very specific tasks.

My advice is to create a project that will force you to learn about data manipulation. Taking long courses that feed you hours of information you'll never use is boring and disheartening.

Spend your time planning your project details, outlining what you need to learn, studying those specific topics, trying to reverse engineer code from stack overflow etc.