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by ExtremisAndy 1281 days ago
Very good points. My Python skills are such that I would be laughed out of a Python job interview for hilarious incompetence, but the small subset of the language I know and am comfortable with has allowed me to automate all sorts of tasks and saved me an enormous amount of time over the years. What I love about Python is the great spectrum of possibilities with it over quite a range of skill levels!
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Where my skills lack are in areas that just aren't relevant to my work. The quiz had a lot of questions about the testing infrastructure. Whereas I use Python mostly in Jupyter notebooks, and for laboratory automation.

Still, I'm going to take a refresher course next year. I don't want to be the guy who's teaching Python without knowing it.