I like perl because of how it looks similar to php, and because it looks similar to php, the structure is somewhat like C. I am not sure how good Python is at text manipulation, but I'll bet it is similar to perl and can do, if not all the things perl can, most things perl can.
Languages I know are: C, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Javascript, and bash.
Languages I played in: Python, Ruby, C++, C#, lua, go.
I want to learn C++ as it has very good cross platform stuff. But don't know when to start. I want to learn python so I can help with mailpile, but don't know when to start. I want to learn go as I want to write my own chat protocol, but don't know when to start.
I am not biased with languages, I just don't know other languages and can't give a pros/cons comparing between them.