What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

[Robert Kern]

On 2013-09-20 12:43, rusi wrote:
> On Friday, September 20, 2013 3:28:00 PM UTC+5:30, Aseem Bansal wrote:
>> I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the minimum that I must know before I can say that I know Python?
>>
>> I come from a C background which is comparatively smaller. But as Python is comparatively much larger what minimum should I know?
>>
>> Just a general question not for a specific purpose.
>
> Stroustrup says he is still learning C++ and I know kids who have no qualms saying they know programming language L (for various values of L) after hardly an hour or two of mostly advertising and pep-talk exposure.
> So without knowing what you mean my 'knowing' I am not going to try answering q-1

I think that's his actual question: "What do *you* mean by 'I know Python'?" At 
what point in your Python career did you feel comfortable claiming that?

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco