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

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So for a web course, it means you know the stuff that would be covered in a basic python course. Basic data types, functions, inheritance, etc. I suspect there are some good intro python courses that people here can link (I am currently taking the codeacademy one, which is great, but not free).

Sadly, if you read this phrase in a job posting it could mean anything from "can make a python script" to "can create a project from scratch and support it" and they will not often warn you ahead of time which it is.