The basic syntax itself will look very familiar to someone coming from python. The immediate obvious differences: - 1-based indexing instead of 0-based - end

The basic syntax itself will look very familiar to someone coming from python. The immediate obvious differences: - 1-based indexing instead of 0-based - end keyword vs significant whitespace blocks (and no colon to start a block) - function instead of def (or defined inline f(x) = ...) - x -> ... instead of lambda x : ... - start:stop/start:step:stop instead range(start,stop)/range(start,stop,step) - strings are joined with * instead of + The actual internals, and features such as types and multiple dispatch can make it a very different to use, but hopefully that should be enough to get you started.