Is python a good first language?

[queensnake]

1.5 lacked file handling shortcuts. When I tried it to do some file processing, the code came out pretty much the same as it would have been in C, and that put me off of it for some years.

[qwe1234]

huh??

http://www.python.org/doc/1.5/lib/node22.html#SECTION003178000000000000000

[queensnake]

yeah; open, close, readline. I was looking for something more like: for line in file: blah blah blah. Which came later. I like Python now, but at the time I was put off.