I've added XMMS support to the iPodder Debian package using PyXMMS.
I'm just starting to learn Python. The only thing I'd written in Python previously is a script to remove large attachments in email messages and store them in a database, replacing them with a link in the message to retrieve the attachment over http. This task was made much simpler than it would have been in other languages because of the Python email module. I'm very impressed with the large library of Python classes available.
The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. - Frederic Bastiat