Every language requires months of mastery. Well, it does and it doesn't, it all depends. I've seen so many languages that I don't quiver as much as I used to, but you still need to know the "ways of doing things here", wherever you happen to be. Which is why I just assembled myself a small library of perl ebooks to nail down process interaction and other gizmos I need in a little project of mine.
Python is dead easy to start with, but once you want to get into the higher echelons it's sort of hard to know where to look it up. Which is common to almost all languages, isn't it? It took me a few months to get things like properties and decorators from the time I first heard about them, and by then I had been using Python casually for a couple of years.
And if it's sick experiments you're after, Perl will delight you endlessly.