It's funny. As a Rubyist, I still recommend Python for getting started in programming.
The docs are better, the code is probably easier to read for someone new to programming (there isn't a requirement to understand OOP to be productive), the community isn't alarmingly dysfunctional, and the conventions are more traditional. You can port a lot of Python concepts over to other languages easier than you could Ruby, I would think.
Python is classical music. Ruby is jazz. Choose the least subjective/nuanced approach first and build from there. But that's just me.
The docs are better, the code is probably easier to read for someone new to programming (there isn't a requirement to understand OOP to be productive), the community isn't alarmingly dysfunctional, and the conventions are more traditional. You can port a lot of Python concepts over to other languages easier than you could Ruby, I would think.
Python is classical music. Ruby is jazz. Choose the least subjective/nuanced approach first and build from there. But that's just me.