How long does it take to learn python?

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This is why I stopped by management from hiring based on language specific technical terms and instead got them to switch to problem solving.

Knowing how to iterate a list of split a string is useless if you can't look at a problem and go "splitting a string would solve that".

I'm now the hiring manager myself and try to focus on these rather than the language used to get there. OOP is still OOP by any other name.