On 2017-07-27, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > 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.
In a matter of a week or two if they're at all competent. Even if they don't know Python, if they know _variety_ of other languages (scheme/lisp, Smalltalk, Java, C, FORTRAN, assembly) they'll be able to pick up Python quickly. If they have only ever used a single language, that may be a warning sign. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! The SAME WAVE keeps at coming in and COLLAPSING gmail.com like a rayon MUU-MUU ... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list