Is version control worth learning early on?
iamelgringo: If you're doing python development, I'd suggest learning Mercurial (HG).  I actually find it simpler to use than SVN.  And Python itself is moving to HG for version control.Also, if you're on Windows and you want to do SVN, feel free to pick up Tortise SVN.  It adds SVN extensions to explorer, and the tutorials are really rather good.