I wouldn\'t call myself programmer, but I\'ve started learning Python recently and really enjoy it.
I mainly use it for small tasks so far - scripting, text processing,
Visual Studio and PTVS: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/OneOfMicrosoftsBestKeptSecretsPythonToolsForVisualStudioPTVS.aspx
(There is also a REPL inside VS)