Overwhelmed by the Simplicity of Python. Any Recommendation?

[songbird]

Rhodri James wrote:
...
> I completely agree.  I too have come from a background in C, and still 
> do most of my day job in C or assembler.  It took a while before I was 
> writing idiomatic Python, never mind efficient Python (arguably I still 
> don't, but as Rob says, who cares?).  Don't worry about it; at some 
> point you will discover that the "obvious" Python you are writing looks 
> a lot like the code you are looking at now and thinking "that's really 
> clever, I'll never be able to to that."

  at this stage of my own process in learning, i'm
trying to read the FAQs i can find, any tutorials,
answers to specific questions on stackoverflow on
particular topics to see if i can understand the
issues, etc.

  as for my own code, yes, it's horrible at the 
moment, but to me working code is always the 
final arbitor.  i much prefer simple and stepwise
refinement if speed isn't the issue i think clarity
and simplicity is more important.

  speed is only more important for large projects 
that process a ton of data.

  in 3-5yrs i expect to understand more of what 
the theory and more conceptual things going on as
i read more of the history and how the language 
has developed.

  i won't consider myself fluent until i start 
"thinking" in it and can visualise the data
structures/objects in my head and such as i 
currently do for C.


  songbird