I'm pretty sure that this "90% of Python" is in the context of the stuff an already-experienced developer needs to absorb to honestly put "Python" under "Languages" in a resume...
... Not the amount of knowledge you need to say "I know everything there is to know about Python, it's implementation details, and its entire associated ecosystem of third-party applications."
> but that's not True at all
Can't tell if intentional, or habit :P
I don't think the library and packages are part of the language though. Just like there is a 'C' without a standard library there is Python 'the language'.
As for the 90%, 90% of the code you write is boring and simple. The one thing I really missed in the slides was list comprehensions, presumably they are in the '10%', but I use them all the time.
(List) comprehensions are super cool, as are generators, decorators, etc, but there just wasn't enough time to cover that. Plus, as you say most code is boring, and you can get by with the material in this deck.