Python for the .NET Developer

There are four reasons to learn Python:

Python's popularity and concomitant high salaries; Python engineers have some of the highest salaries in the industry. Also, Python has undergone a strong spike in popularity over the last year.
Ease of Learning; Python is extremely simple and easy to learn. It is a very powerful language and it closely resembles the English language! So, what contributes to its simplicity? Python is a free and open source, high-level, interpreted, and blessed with a large community.
Python's portability and extensibility allow you to perform cross-language operations seamlessly.
It's a very flexible language, capable of creating anything from desktop software to web applications and frameworks.