I got my initial exposure that way, but I had a hard time putting all the pieces together until I pulled Django out, and got a better understanding of which things came from where.

I should probably also point out that I'd only dealt with web languages before that point (PHP, ASP Classic, etc), so that's probably a negative point for me.

Everybody's different, for sure. For me, my Django suffered until I understood Python.

Can I ask what your pre-Django experience was? I wonder if there's any significance.