I recognize the irony of this, given the 'Less Video' portion of the parent article[1]. But my first introduction to using Python in a truly 'Pythonic' way was Peter Norvig's free CS212 class on Udacity. (It will be starting up again June 25th).

Until then, I had just been translating my old habits into Python.

[1] Also, I'm a huge fan of learning languages from 'guide books,' as recommended by the parent article.