I'd like to add that what you should really be looking for is not a Python programmer as such, but simply a good, competent programmer.
Any decent programmer will be able to quickly pick up what they need to know about Python on the job. If they can't, then they're not good enough, and you shouldn't hire them. The same goes for any of the other technology buzzwords on your list. Jeremiah Dodds wrote:
it's worth mentioning that it can be very hard to gauge experience past the basics if you don't have it yourself.
More than that, I'd say it's impossible. So I second the recommendation to involve one of your existing experienced programmers in the interviewing. It will be difficult even for them to judge the candidate's competence, but at least they'll have a chance. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
