That depends on your definition of "easy" , it's somewhere between javascript and C, but slightly more towards the javascript end I would say, with a syntax that resembles Pascal or VbScript more than it does C
For me, the reason for using Python is that it is a 'native' language for Linux operating systems and as I do not run any M$ Windows machines any "desktop" scripting I need to do is going to be Perl or Python.
For web processing ... Python is 'neater' than PHP, with regards to the function syntax and naming.