Huh? The vast majority of my Python scripts are purely procedural. The libraries are OO, but that doesn't affect the structure of my code much.

I made several serious attempts to learn Perl, precisely because I know my scripts would be more concise in Perl than in Python, but I find that my scripting needs are too erratic. Concision requires richness, and I can't retain such a rich language without frequent exposure. Excluding throwaway scripts, I typically spend half a day writing a script and then go several weeks without needing to do any scripting. My attempts to learn Perl ended because every month or two I tried to write a Perl program and ended up spending as much time reviewing the language as I spent coding.

Python is a fairly small, simple language that doesn't present opportunities for wizardry. It's a perfect language for me, but it's probably an inferior scripting tool to Perl for people who are capable of retaining a useful subset of Perl.

I don't understand how Python forces OO at all. I rarely define classes in Python except in fairly large programs, and even then I use them more as datatypes than to implement OO design.