if you want to be hired in the industry, get good at C++. Real good. Like, godly.
if you want to Get Things Done and ship a small game with a small team (e.g. just you), use python, C++ is a premature optimization.
Python2 has better library support for game stuff -- PyGame will set up your window and give you 2D operations, PyOpenGL to do fancier stuff, Panda3D, etc.
