Personally, I'm skeptical of the "great for beginners" point. I've helped a few beginners in Python who had subtle, yet program-breaking bugs just because their return statement was indented to the wrong level. It would have been easier to just use a brace-delimited language and run the autoformatter to reveal any discrepancies.
(Or we could be using a lisp, but that's another problem :) )
(Or we could be using a lisp, but that's another problem :) )