A Python Core Competency Checklist

John Raines
8 min readJul 21, 2021
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Whether Python is your first language, or your 10th, here’s a list of basic competencies which, once mastered, will take you far. Note that most of these competencies don’t involve outside libraries — these are not the competencies that will make you a stunning Data Scientist or a API developer. These competencies are core — they’re fundamental. No matter what path you choose to go down with Python, being competent in these…

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John Raines

For money, I’m a software engineer who primarily works in machine learning platform design. For free, I read fantasy novels and raise children (my own).