Well, if you're promoting py/pyext/python that much, could you direct me to a good beginner's resource to python? (I'm familiar with programming in general, have quite a lot experience in Delphi, and am somewhat familiar with things like JavaScript, php, but also SQL etc.)

http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide has a list of python tutorials ...

two pretty good guides are http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/ and http://diveintopython.org/ ...

hth ... tim