Good Questions to Ask Interview Candidates

Hi All,

We've got a position opening up, and I'm going to be doing a bunch of Python interviews, and am looking for good ideas for questions. What I'm looking for are things that don't just test code writing/problem ability (like your standard whiteboard interview), but also test familiarity with Python specifically, and allow room to kind of explore where the candidates strengths and weakness are. One good example I thought of was ask the candidate to do something, then ask them to do it again with a decorator, and then finally ask how they'd do it if Python didn't support the `@decorator` syntax. What are your great interview questions, Reddit?