Hmm,

I'd like to have a dialect of Python that looks C.

Python is a generally cool and you can get used to meaningful whitespace easily BUT the meaningful white space thing becomes very problematic when you're on an arbitrary system using vi and without tools for dealing with Pythonism. When we had a serious bug that was removed by rewriting whitespace in a way we couldn't even determine by sight, I swore never to use the language again. I did a couple of years of python coding earlier. Kind of like project Mono's unexplained memory leaks.