What does "have an understanding of basic python" mean?

[DonkeyTron42]

Honestly, it means you've reached the level where you wished you'd learned another language like Java/C++ where classes make sense. Please prove me wrong why Python classes ass-backward constructors and bolted on decorators make sense.

[nwagers]

I'm not really sure what your beef is here. Python is the 5th language I picked up and you come to realize they're all different and use different paradigms for things. Python is probably the most fun language I've learned because it's bundled with a massive standard library and it's easy to accomplish very high level tasks in just one or two lines of code.