My next project after I have had a deeper look at Nuke will be to get profficient with Pymel. Pymel is a python wrapper designed by Luma pictures and is ment to make Python scripting in maya faster, more intuitive and pythonic. Totally nerdy but I just love this sentence from the Pymel docs: “Object oriented programming isn’t necessarily about brevity, it’s about legibility derived from structure”
As a side note this is the first post I have written using the wordpress app for iPad. I must say that it works really good. Take care !