Expressing yourself in languages like Python is much easier than C++. You'll be able to concentrate more on solving the problem at hand than dealing with the language.

I highly recommend these two short books:

https://www.amazon.com/Treading-Python-Beginning-Programming...

http://www.amazon.com/Treading-Python-2-Intermediate/dp/1490...

Another "Intermediate Python" book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/149055095X