Whoever has imagination more rich than mine, how can a programming language can be easier than Python? What's difficult in it?
The only thing I find inconvenient in Python is you can't simply put every function (including every member functions of a class - that's what I would love to do) in a separate file without having to import every one of them manually.
I do believe that he/she meant that they need way higher levels of abstraction than Python.
Let's say Python is current C, they want something X that's like Ruby in compare to current C.
That strikes me as an anti-pattern although you could mimic this behaviour by exposing each one at the package level. Performance is likely to be terrible if you're working on anything sufficiently large.
When you create a .py file, the CPython interpreter treats it as a "module". You can basically treat a Python "module" as if it were a class because the global variables are automatically scoped unless you import them explicitly. You could actually write some code that would allow you to instantiate the entire module in the same manner you would instantiate a class. Though, I have no idea where this pattern would be useful.