Reasons to choose Python over C++?

[micseydel]

I can't event imagine how confusing could be for someone who is a programmer for a long-long time.

There comes a point at which you have at least passing familiarity with enough languages that it stops being as hard. As part of my CS degree, I also took two terms of "programming languages" coursework that helped formalize a lot of things for me. I forget most of it, but there was a lot about dynamic dispatch, scope (which some people thing is defined in Python with indentation, which is not true), paradigms like procedural, functional and declarative, etc. The middlepoint is worse than the long-term.