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I set up my Python env once 5 years ago. Haven't touched it since.

It would probably take me an hour to set it up again.

Still I produce quality Python code (almost) every day. To me, the skills are entirely orthogonal.

Your experience is probably in the minority of Python developers. There have been plenty of updates to popular packages + the core interpreter during that time, updates to package/env managers (e.g. poetry). It's one thing if you're using python to solve projecteuler problems, but it's another if you're writing any full-stack code that has a variety of dependencies. It's great when you can set up a dev environment and then "forget" about it for some time, but 5 years is an exceedingly long time to not touch an env setup, and it implies that you are not really working with external dependencies, or too many other coworkers.

We're using Poetry, and I frequently update dependencies.

But I was commenting on this:

> If you can't setup a python virtual env in about 30s... don't apply for a python job.

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