Today I am supporting a mac user and getting a good reminder in how difficult computers are to an awful lot of non-expert users.

My Apple-Id? Is that Microsoft?

Which one is the power cable?

My iphone passcode? I don't have one. (spoiler: they do)

What's a browser?

But what if I need my spam?

There's no such thing as an intuitive interface.

My estimate of what you need to nail your first py job:

Be comfortable with dev environment tooling, common dev process, testing, write docs, good commit messages

Be advanced enough to grok all language constructs, including things like decorators and context managers

Read, understand, and improve python code in the wild

Learn mypy? It really improves your code

Land some open source patches to demonstrate you got all this

Good luck, it's not as big a hill as it looks from the bottom!