Someone told me once, that programmers tend to learn one scripting language properly and ignore or dislike other scripting languages. Do you have similar experiences? I'm using Python as my choice for scripting for few years, however, I'm sure that there are many existing and emerging languages that could impress the Pythonistas. Can you recommend scripting languages that would be interesting and useful to learn besides of Python?
To answer your first question: Do people learn one language and then ignore or dislike others? Well, if you know one language well, you will need to see great advantages to move to another.
I started out using perl and eventually thought that there must be easier way to do some things. I picked up python and stopped using perl almost at once. A little while later I thought I'd try ruby and learned a bit about that. The advantages over using python weren't big enough to switch, so I decided to stick with python. If I had started out using ruby, I'd probably be using that still. If you are using python, I don't think you will easily find another scripting language that will win you over.
On the other hand, if you learn functional programming, you will probably learn a few new things, some of them will even be useful in your python programming, since a few things in python seems to be inspired by functional programming and knowing how to use them will make you a better programmer in general and a better python programmer too.