I've tryed to use python some times but I get frustrated very quick. I get myself many times needing to figure out how to loop through a list, declare an associative array, checking how to pass named parameters to functions, and simple things like that.
Create a cheat sheet with all those stock phrases that you know by heart in Perl, but have to look up in Python. That way, it's only one look. And you'll know them by heart soon enough.
You could also print out or keep bookmarks on the modules you use the most. When I started using Python, I did this for strings, regular expressions and the os and os.path modules.
Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
