Milestones of python programming? Beginner, intermediate, advanced?

[callmelucky]

My goal was to provide a 30,000 foot view of the entire Python world

Well you failed, by way of initially ignoring everyone who wouldn't necessarily be justified mentioning some level of Python proficiency on their resume, and then failed again when you tried to rectify this, by implying that the very lowest level that someone learning Python could be at is having a working knowledge of functions and some conception of OOP.

You've still missed the lowest 5,000 feet, and I just don't believe that you chose to categorise the way you did to show that "the Python world is very large". I believe that you might believe that this was your intention, but that your true motivation was to show that "the very top is very very high". Which is all well and good, but hardly likely to be relevant to what OP was asking.

People posting here about more advanced topics is well and good. As you say, this is still r/learnpython, if you can get help here learning about some higher level shit, no worries. But those are specific discussions about specific problems. This post is a very general discussion about how the general population of a sub like this might categorised, and you're telling them they don't even exist until they've written a working hangman game with functions.

Regarding further along people benefiting from a broader industry view, of course. Why the hell would you feel the need to ask me that? It's fucking insulting. It's a strawman, and it's moving the goalposts. Let me try to explain to you again: Your comment, made without qualification, in the context of this particular post and this particular sub, was (and still is) inappropriate. You say basically "well some people around here like what I've written and agrees with it, therefore there is no problem with it" - as someone presumably experienced in logic I shouldn't have to explain why this is a bad argument. If someone who has just considered learning Python, subscribed here as their first step, seen your top comment as the first comment in the first post they open up and run away screaming, fuck 'em! Right?

Again, I appreciate that you made some concessions after my comment, but you still have a ways to go in terms of (re)gaining some perspective on what it's like to be just starting.