[thorin]

Python the hard way would be good, but what do you want/need to do in the job, you might want to mention that! If you are doing webdev you should devote sometime to django/flask. I'm sure you can pick it up pretty quickly, it's less "weird" than ruby but I think most of your time might be getting up to speed on libraries.

[surds]

Ha! I agree Ruby is probably weirder, even though I love it.

It's going to be Webdev with Flask. This is another vote for Python The Hard Way - will take a look at it, and get some hands-on time with Python.