Learn python the social way, by contributing to open source projects, and by going to ALL the meetups. This way you will meet quality folks, and learn things. You will get real world experience working in teams.
As someone who has been teaching people to get into jobs for 20 years, this is what I recommend.
Would you learn karate from a book? Would you learn basketball from a book? All these companies, and 'professors' promoting bedroom solitary learning are bullshit. Most haven't even worked in real professional software companies, so they don't know jack about what's actually needed. Sure, they'll take your money.
It will be hard. Go to meetups, ask them what they need in their companies. Submit contributions to open source projects, and ask them how to do stuff.
http://blog.cyberpunk.bike/blog/learning-python-the-social-way
Make a spreadsheet of jobs, and search every day for jobs to put in there. Eventually, you'll get a sense for what skills are in demand. Don't just accept what randoms tell you on the internet, or what people selling advice tell you. They probably don't even live in your city, so WHAT THE FUCK do they know? Get the data for your situation.
Call these recruiters up. The best ones will want to make a relationship with you and meet you in person. The others are fucking sharks - avoid. You'll get practice selling yourself. What do they want to hear? Try different things.
Walk into the front door of these companies with a bunch of your best code printed out and bound nicely. For each company, that you have researched so much you know what coffee they drink... so you know what they are after. Give them evidence you know what they are looking for. They use github? Well, show them your github. They use JIRA, show them you know that. What are the ads asking for? Prove it. Hardly any one walks in the front door, they just spam off to random places. Be prepared to wait for a short meeting, ask them what you need to do to get hired. Don't bullshit them.
Do the work, have something you can show in public. Be social. And for fucks sake - don't learn basketball (only) from a book. Good luck.