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

[Terry Reedy]

On 9/20/2013 5:58 AM, 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?

The C stdlib may be smaller than the Python stdlib, but I do not think 
the language itself is much smaller. Python3 is a bit smaller than 
Python2 due to removals.

Python the language is defined in the Language Reference. So 'knowing 
Python' means knowing most of that. What I might leave out: the details 
of all the special method names; which bitwise operators do what; yield 
from (3.3+). From the library manual, I would include an overview of 
chapters 2 to 5. For instance, not memorize all the exceptions, but 
understand the hierarchy.

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Terry Jan Reedy