Python is really popular right now. It's a very nice language. It gets my vote.

I'd say Python. It's a bit informal if you ask me, but it will definitely get the job done!

If you're new to Python, here's a great interactive resource http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python plug>

That your site @sean?

Yes I am totally new to Python. The only languages I know fluently is mIRC's mSL. I have played around with C++ and AutoIt as well. C++ is out of the question, too much for me. I want to use AutoIt since I want to get to know more of it and it has a wonderful arsenal of tools and includes.

I'm torn between Python and AutoIt. I may go with AutoIt since I already have it installed on my computer and I am already familiar with it...

Definitely go with Python. It's a much more popular and better supported language than AutoIt.

Its not necessarily support I'm looking for. AutoIt has everything I need for this, and plus once its compiled it shouldn't matter. IDK about to post info on my current mini project ;)

Python is big on Linux-based distributions, as far as I know anyway, and it does have some online presence. Would be good for developing programs that are cross compatible with other operating systems.

AutoIt, however, is a reverberation of Window's VBS. As you can probably guess Window's programming languages were not designed to be multi-platform compatible, and as such is probably a trait AutoIt has also acquired. Besides, AutoIt is somewhat of a shorthand language to Windows-based functions, which would almost make it somewhat like a batch file, command after command.

@N3M3S1S Python would certainly be the better language to learn IMO as most hosting providers have support for it 'out of the box'.

@Hawkee No but, I've written a few jQuery, Javascript and Python courses :)