Ya possible via python, just more work. Python2Exe would provide no realy benefit unless you are distributing it to people who don't have python interpreters. Though the amount of work to do this on python is much greater, since python has no gui framework out of the box. So you will have to install the win32 extensions…
Yes, I would like to make a game engine that also has functionality of Maya/Houdini/Substance Designer/Photoshop/SpeeTree/WorldMachine. Yeah, it is written in Python. It is pretty fast because I do all the math in NumPy, python library for math written in C
In python variables still have types, and you definitely need to know the difference. The only core topic that python isn't good for learning imo is the oop stuff since it is very flexible on that end (unlike something like java which has a huge emphasis on oop).
As I understand it Python 2.5 is going to be cut and replaced by Python 3.0 The idea being that the new core will break backward compatibility with most python plugins anyway, might as well update while they are at it. As far as Python being included...Im not sure what the plan is with that. Maybe they will offer it with…