{"id":9947,"date":"2006-03-03T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/03\/python-here-i-come\/"},"modified":"2006-03-05T14:22:13","modified_gmt":"2006-03-05T11:22:13","slug":"python-here-i-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/03\/python-here-i-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Python! Here I come!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Life is full of surprises and irony.  Or at least it looks so to me.  Especially now.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been more than two years since I planned to learn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.python.org\">Python programming language<\/a>.  At first I really wanted to do so, but didn&#8217;t have any free time.  Then I came across a couple of tasks at work that made me write a few patches here and there, but the complexity just wasn&#8217;t there and I didn&#8217;t learn anything beyond the simpliest things.  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