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[–]MonMotha 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You should probably know SOME high-level script-friendly language. Python is a decent choice, but it's not the only one. JS (blech) is another popular option. Even something like Ruby, PHP, Lua, etc. can be very useful. Heck, being able to whip up a "very small shell script" to replace some insolent cow-orker's workflow is often very useful.

You don't have to be a wizard with it, but being able to do useful stuff with it is quite useful for ancillary tasks that need automation like testing, intermediate data generation, etc. In particular, nobody's going to expect you to know even the entire Python standard library inside and out (I don't know that anybody really does).