This tutorial assumes you already know some things. It does not attempt to teach you Python (I assume you are comfortable with Python 2, Python 3, and six), pip, virtualenv, unit testing, TCP/IP networking, HTTP, or relational databases. You can hardly be called a Python Programmer if you don't have good understanding of all these things. However, if you are missing something, I provide some pointers.
Some people like the official Python Tutorial, but I don't. I learned Python with Python Essential Reference by D. M. Beazley. I think it was a great book, but it was suitable only for experienced programmers. If you are not an experienced programmer, maybe you need another book - there is a large number of such books on the market; you have to choose. If you are an experienced programmer, maybe the newer editions of Beazley are still great, but I don't really know since I haven't read them.
It is my opinion that everyone should learn Python 3 and that it should be used in all new projects. If you are an experienced Python 2 programmer, make sure you learn Python 3. If you don't know Python yet, make sure the book you choose teaches you Python 3. If it teaches you both 2 and 3, so much the better.
In this tutorial the examples run both with 2 and 3, and for that they use six.
pip, practically speaking, is Python's package manager. For this tutorial, you don't need to know how to package your own code, but you need to be able to install and manage stuff with pip. virtualenv is a tool every Python programmer should be familiar with. After you become comfortable with it, virtualenvwrapper will make you life even easier.
There is so much urging on the net about the importance of unit testing that I have absolutely nothing to add. I assume you are familiar with the Python unittest standard library module.
Django is used to create web applications, and web applications are client-server applications where the client communicates with the server with HTTP, which is a protocol built on top of TCP, which is a protocol built on top IP. It's hard to develop web applications if you don't understand all that very clearly.
If you have studied computing, you probably took one or two courses on computer networks and you should know all that already. If you don't, it will be very useful to find a good book and learn.
The problem with relational databases is that everyone will tell you they know them, when in fact very few people do. Same thing with books. Anyway, you should be comfortable at least with the third normal form. I've found Practical Issues in Database Management, by Fabian Pascal, to be quite helpful. I think that the word "practical" in the title is meant to tell you that you can understand it, because it approaches the issues from a practical point of view, it doesn't use relational calculus. However, it is theoretical in the sense that it will tell you few solutions to your real problems; but it will help your mind think in the proper way. Don't be misled into thinking it's old - what the heck, it is more than 10 years younger than the second edition of K&R. It's much more likely for this tutorial to be outdated than for such books.