Thanks for posting those links to the Al Sweigart books, also, Schizm. While mastery of a new programming language is a long way off for me, I was interested in Python also because of its uses in Visual Novel programming.
The "
Ren'Py" (LOL pun on 'ren-ai') engine made VN creation so accessible to many indie game developers. It really is quite dynamic in what it can do (with a lot of elbow-grease-programming.) :) While it's daunting to learn all of that from scratch at least it makes VN creation for budding artists/writers an appealing possibility. :)