But there wasn't anything in Python that I found compelling so I never came back.

As a scripting language, Ruby seems so much more compelling, despite it's friendliness seeming to doom it to eternal slow bugginess. I'd go back to Ruby before Python.

But I'm more likely to add Python support to an app I'm developing, since I know it's more sensible.

Python's functional aspects seem chronically undeveloped so leaving it for a real functional language makes sense. But functional approaches seem limited in the "real world".

Then again, Python doesn't have rake.

But I'm certainly ready and interested in moving toward a more functional language -- I've always been interested in the Lisps, and have always tended to write code in the functional style, where possible (even though my first language was Java...)

i think you must mean "false", then.

Then again he's programming in a hot bed of programmers in that well known programming mecca of Hamilton, New Zealand. Oh, wait...