Python has gotten hard to learn. It's not too bad if learning it just to learn, or learning it in a classroom setting with a careful plan, but I've witnessed people trying to learn it professionally in the context of getting testing running, and it's hard to learn when trying to use a mature Python codebase that uses Python thoroughly. There's these decorators, and iterators vs. functions, and things using introspection to do invisible things, and on and on it goes.

Python used to be easy to learn. It isn't anymore. It may be a better language for all the feature additions, but it isn't easy to learn anymore and I no longer recommend it for that purpose. (I don't have a recommendation at the moment.)