https://medium.com/microsoft-open-source-stories/python-at-microsoft-flying-under-the-radar-eabbdebe4fb0/

In 2010, our few Pythonistas were flying under the radar, in case somebody noticed that they could reassign a few developers to their own project. The team was small, leftover from a previous job, but was chipping away at a company culture that suffered from “not invented here” syndrome: Python was a language that belonged to other people, and so Microsoft was not interested.

I have a question not quite on the topic, but could you advise any lessons or literature on python?

Python's documentation has a tutorial. Might start with that.

thanks!