Python

692 engineers on Hacker News describe using Python first-hand: 136 endorse it, 70 regret it, 49 are mixed.

63%trust
692first-hand users
494in production
endorse 136mixed 49regret 70uses, no opinion

“It ends up a bit more ergonomic to not have explicit result types because union types are pretty easy in Python.”

endorse · production · travisd · 2026-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I work mostly with Python and I cannot image my life without type hints.”

endorse · production · paskejl · 2026-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python reads like pseudocode, and pass and ... (Ellipsis) let me skip whatever I don't care about.”

endorse · personal · davepeck · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I do feel unduly burdened as a developer by async in python. ...some stuff is genuinely better in Python”

mixed · production · CraigJPerry · 2026-07-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the LLM does better with Python for kinda similar reasons as humans. It's succinct and can be rerun quickly”

endorse · production · jim33442 · 2026-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Our firm uses python extensively and the virtual environment for every script or script is ... difficult.”

mixed · production · rmah · 2025-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I love it, and have been using it for decades, and write beautiful things”

endorse · personal · 20 yr · zahlman · 2025-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“since then been using Python extensively since 2.7”

endorse · personal · gogasca · 2025-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“So I bought a book, and as soon as I opened it, I could just read it.”

endorse · personal · scoofy · 2025-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have been using Python since 2005.”

endorse · production · 20 yr · zahlman · 2025-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“When I've had to write similar code in Python, it's a massive pain to "prove" that my conversation code is correct.”

regret · production · h3half · 2025-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“No other language have I dealt with more of the "Well, it works on my machine" excuse, after being passed done the world's worst code from a "data scientist".”

regret · production · millerm · 2025-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Building a service in Python means I'm constantly fixing issues in production.”

regret · production · mynameisash · 2025-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I would have called Python my favorite language from about 2000 to probably 2015 or so.”

endorse · personal · 15 yr · jerf · 2025-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python, in contrast, was a god-send. ... did a similar course in UC Berkeley, with python: aced it, loved it, and learned a lot.”

endorse · personal · osm3000 · 2025-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“All of the Python code we replaced led to a ~40% speedup”

regret · production · csvance · 2025-10-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I was really into Python and Ruby, and still admire them while liking Elixir much more”

endorse · personal · ralmidani · 2025-02-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python is still my favourite actually-existing programming language”

endorse · personal · 20 yr · zahlman · 2024-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The best middle ground for me so far has been using python with type hints.”

endorse · personal · msanlop · 2024-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I found out that, to my surprise, 99% of the code that I naturally wrote could have static types attached”

endorse · personal · fouric · 2024-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“one can be too clever with Python too. However the language (Python) is quite dull, which can be a good or a bad thing.”

mixed · production · pmontra · 2024-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've learnt that the best package to use LLMs is just Python.”

endorse · personal · behnamoh · 2024-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“they're immensely valuable for catching little issues in production code.”

endorse · production · wenc · 2024-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I try to avoid python in production code bases as much as possible: dependency management issues alone are a good reason to do so”

regret · production · fiddlerwoaroof · 2024-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have found python documentation extremely lacking in this area too.”

regret · personal · robsws · 2024-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I manage a python monorepo in prod and dependency management is hell.”

regret · production · drawnwren · 2024-08-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Early on we used Python as our formula language but were constantly fighting the GIL and slow interpreter performance.”

regret · production · breckognize · 2024-06-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we've replaced production python and perl systems with Go.”

regret · production · sethammons · 2024-02-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“My first real software job I worked primarily in Python and diligently added and maintained unit tests for every code path.”

mixed · production · cbdumas · 2023-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“these slow interpreted languages and their developer experience optimized frameworks absolutely do become a bottleneck”

regret · production · seabrookmx · 2023-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“as soon as you have something moderately sized the slowness of languages like Python or Ruby becomes a problem”

regret · production · 15 yr · whstl · 2023-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The limited API provides ABI stability, which allows building a single artifact that will work across Python versions.”

endorse · production · haberman · 2023-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“That would better demonstrate why we use Python in the first place... while also indicating why it is slow.”

mixed · production · pphysch · 2023-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We used Python as we had a bunch of existing business logic in Python we wanted to re-use”

mixed · production · shoo · 2023-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I work on a Python codebase now after years of JVM and here's what I miss, static typing taken as read.”

mixed · production · EdwardDiego · 2023-09-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“moved ... to Python, so it addressed all of our issues while also speeding up development and... giving us a decent performance boost too.”

endorse · production · dbrueck · 2023-09-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python is the tool for building models quickly but shipping them to production... I would strongly recommend against using Python in prod”

mixed · production · PheonixPharts · 2023-08-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Having created and maintained python and go web servers, python never again if I have a choice.”

regret · production · sethammons · 2023-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Our initial code was in Python and we absolutely struggled with it once we hit scale.”

regret · production · hannofcart · 2023-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've personally experienced a large Python codebase at a Unicorn tech startup and I'd like to never experience it again.”

regret · production · brigadier132 · 2023-08-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“thus we've booted python long ago, and the lower level apis aren't simply serializing standard json”

regret · production · ramoz · 2023-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We migrated from Python to Golang yesterday... more guarantees about the code correctness by the compiler when compared to using Python.”

regret · production · ujnproduct · 2023-03-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Stuff rots a lot less fast than in python and js. Code keeps working for longer, dependency goofiness happens a lot less”

regret · production · ye-olde-sysrq · 2023-03-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“but stick to Python/typeScript when I want to be pragmatic.”

endorse · production · eddsh1994 · 2023-03-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have made the mistake of trying to use it for time-critical embedded applications. Never again.”

regret · personal · robomartin · 2023-03-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Everything became more verbose and harder to read when we switched to Python.”

regret · production · aborsy · 2023-01-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Been using Python for over 15 years... I keep sticking with Python, because you can learn it very quickly”

endorse · personal · 15 yr · submeta · 2022-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have Django projects, some of which I am going to assume are more complex than Mailman, using far less than two gigabytes in production.”

endorse · production · KyeRussell · 2022-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using Python for about 6 years, my last company wrote it's core commercial product exclusively in python.”

endorse · production · 6 yr · ghshephard · 2022-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python was the first language I ever used professionally. It was amazing at the time compared to Java.”

endorse · production · decasia · 2022-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I hate a lot of things about python because I've been using it for almost 20 years, and I know its innards”

mixed · personal · 19 yr · klyrs · 2022-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the latter falls apart after the nth time you have to fix some Python code in prod that's failed 3.5 hours into a process”

regret · production · FridgeSeal · 2022-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We migrated a Python application to Go that was about as simple as you can get and mostly blocked by I/O”

regret · production · azylman · 2022-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“impossible to me, without the flexibility of python”

endorse · personal · 5 yr · Helmut10001 · 2022-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“you cant use the standard multiprocessing library for this kind of thing”

regret · personal · Ostatnigrosh · 2022-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I really dislike python in production and have done it a lot more than I've ever wanted.”

regret · production · jasonjmcghee · 2022-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python is a great language but there are no devs available where I live.”

mixed · production · onion2k · 2022-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have been using Python since 1.2 and never had this kind of problem since we moved to pip.”

endorse · personal · 27 yr · rcarmo · 2022-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I implemented the same task in Python, and not only was the code much simpler and and easier to write, but the task took a second or two each time.”

endorse · production · baryphonic · 2022-08-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we'll just have to bite the bullet and re-write the small Python component”

regret · production · brabel · 2022-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use Python for labautomation and the matlab instrumentation toolbox is a buggy mess”

endorse · production · cycomanic · 2022-06-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I become far more frustrated when I try to write python than I do something like Rust”

regret · personal · likeabbas · 2022-06-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Long time ago I picked Python up for interviews specifically and it was a much better tool for the 'job'.”

endorse · personal · romanhn · 2022-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Personally I hate NoneType errors in prod and find that much more painful than a bit of indirection.”

regret · production · kortex · 2022-05-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“When we switched to Python it was like a breath of fresh air.”

endorse · production · 40acres · 2022-05-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“being able to use Python to drive aspects of KiCad is awesome. We've already created a number of useful utilities relevant to our work.”

endorse · production · robomartin · 2022-04-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I soon discovered the NLTK and then Numpy and so I started playing around in Python. I never again wrote line of Ruby”

endorse · production · guidoism · 2022-03-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Shortly after that I found Python, which was a breath of fresh air at the time”

endorse · personal · digisign · 2022-03-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“You know what does happen when I try to prototype in a good prototyping language like Python or JavaScript? I spend a bunch of time re-running the same code”

regret · personal · ragnese · 2022-01-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python 3 completely changed how the language handled Unicode, and the result on our project was disastrous.”

regret · production · StewardMcOy · 2022-01-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Our stack is exclusively Python, which has been working out beautifully”

endorse · production · pickler_85930 · 2021-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python - been using it for more than 10 years and every time I get the change, I teach it to my students”

endorse · personal · 10 yr · jventura · 2021-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Almost every api is in Golang, and we replaced Python with Go to run the models.”

regret · production · ra-mos · 2021-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Not a fan of python in prod, but typescript all the way”

regret · production · ranguna · 2021-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using python's for years and it's just muscle memory now.”

endorse · personal · rascul · 2021-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“python dependency management is still a kafkaesque nig”

mixed · production · kortex · 2021-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“rebuild Ruby/Rails/PHP/Python apps that don't scale anymore”

regret · production · mrdoops · 2021-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using python since 2.4 now, and it's not always fast enough. But it very, very often, is.”

endorse · personal · 17 yr · BiteCode_dev · 2021-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“At 50k lines of code python becomes something you can't change for fear of some 1 in a million path that will only break after it hits production.”

mixed · production · 10 yr · bluGill · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've battled with Python's packaging systems and other tooling and performance problems for more than a decade.”

regret · production · 10 yr · throwaway894345 · 2021-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I love Scala's collections and miss their power and ease when I'm writing Python.”

mixed · production · philipkglass · 2021-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using python for ~20 years and it finally seems to be on a path towards some sort of sanity”

endorse · personal · 20 yr · omnicognate · 2021-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Learning to pipe things in/out in python is a great skill to have in these circumstances.”

endorse · personal · stjohnswarts · 2021-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we operate a rather large Python API deployment... Works amazingly well! We run our python API tier at 80% target CPU utilization.”

endorse · production · jhgg · 2021-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the Tidyverse tools make it so much easier to avoid bugs and weird join issues than you get in a more imperative programming environment”

regret · production · mshron · 2021-07-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've started moving to using python to generate what I need a lot of the time now in C.”

endorse · personal · anitil · 2021-04-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Definitely recommend Python: using whitespace for blocks is very understandable”

endorse · personal · chondl · 2021-01-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using Python a lot, both professionally and privately. Been contributing to Cpython. Not sure I like the language... But I love the ecosystem of third party packages.”

mixed · production · petters · 2020-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The downsides of Kivy are also the downsides of python; there is almost no design enforcement, no typing”

mixed · production · 2 yr · craftinator · 2020-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“If I couldn't do that with Python, the app simply wouldn't exist. ... Even with the limitations of Python, I like mine much better”

mixed · personal · inclemnet · 2020-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“All of the old stuff was written in Python, all the new stuff is in Go. That alone is saving Uber tens of millions per year just in hosting costs.”

regret · production · kingnothing · 2020-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It's not the Python itself but the ecosystem and tooling around it, especially in machine learning / data science area.”

endorse · production · aldanor · 2020-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It was already widely used and well-supported, as a group effort. I even fixed a few bugs.”

endorse · production · ericbarrett · 2020-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We literally wrote the data-access-layer in python wrapped it as an API and we got a 10x speed boost.”

endorse · production · amir734jj · 2020-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It took me two complete attempts and then a further six months of tweaking to get it anywhere near as stable as the PHP version.”

regret · production · ericbarrett · 2020-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've built many projects with Python, including web apps (using Flask), utilities, database apps and so on, and never regret choosing Python”

endorse · personal · zapperdapper · 2020-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“About 15 years ago I switched to Python for anything which doesn't fit on a single screen”

endorse · production · 15 yr · acdha · 2020-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We still have few functions running in Python which are the most stablest and fastest of functions we are running in prod.”

endorse · production · blntechie · 2020-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“At fast.ai we used dataclasses extensively for a couple of years, but it just kept biting us.”

regret · production · 2 yr · jph00 · 2020-09-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We also ran into other problems with Python, such as packaging and distribution”

regret · production · throwaway894345 · 2020-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we've switched to Python 3 and have almost finished switching to asyncio (improving perf and maintenance massively)”

endorse · production · Arathorn · 2020-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“There's a big benefit to Python's convention if __name__ == "__main__"... I use this a lot during a development cycle”

endorse · production · klyrs · 2020-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“refactoring anything nontrivial written in Python is a dangerous proposition”

regret · personal · the_af · 2020-06-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've switched off Python 2, but I really miss it. For a glorious several years we were done with "production has Python X.Y"”

mixed · production · linsomniac · 2020-04-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“which we replaced with a single threaded python script with better performance.”

endorse · production · zomglings · 2020-02-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I switched to using Python full-time in the late 1990s, and again saw just how much I got "for free" by using a language designed by people”

endorse · production · dalke · 2020-01-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“in reality we needed to write code that was compatible with both 2 and 3 (the "6" approach)”

regret · production · earthboundkid · 2020-01-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've added type hints in most places... The big thing i miss is: Python is not a pure typed language. With python it can always break in production.”

mixed · production · TeeWEE · 2019-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python has an uncanny ability to take tasks that should be IO- / server- bound and make them CPU-bound.”

regret · production · ummonk · 2019-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“But while I do see Raymond Hettinger trolling twitter regularly with his latest crazy walrus magic, in production we see no such thing.”

endorse · production · BiteCode_dev · 2019-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“On a personal level, I have the same problems with using Python... I'm not worried about Python itself — the language is incredibly popular”

mixed · personal · stoicShell · 2019-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Cleaner syntax, no unicode headaches, and no need to have the lingering prospect of a language exodus looming over the head.”

endorse · production · tony · 2019-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python is fine as a teaching tool, to prototype in, and to use in notebooks... but not to run in production.”

regret · production · tgv · 2019-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I mainly use python for small utilities as opposed to big projects”

mixed · personal · MegaLeon · 2019-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use it for a lot of back-end services that used to be build in C# and ASP.”

endorse · production · moksly · 2019-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I would argue that's a problem with the Python ecosystem, not lsp-mode itself.”

mixed · production · jdormit · 2019-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've run into both kinds in production and they've been really hard to troubleshoot”

mixed · production · weberc2 · 2019-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python gives me the flexibility to whip up a service and check if fits if it doesnt fit throw it and try again”

endorse · production · elisharobinson · 2019-10-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“they're new to Python, but I've got +15 years experience with it, there's a lot of greenfield development”

endorse · production · 15 yr · hermitdev · 2019-09-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python 2 to 3 (at least by 3.3 or so) was one of the easiest transitions I've ever done.”

endorse · production · ken · 2019-09-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm a proponent on using python for labautomation (we run workshops at some major optics conferences”

endorse · production · cycomanic · 2019-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I love Python's infinite integers and its string handling... My biggest gripe with Python in production is that it isn't statically typed.”

mixed · production · willvarfar · 2019-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been working on large scale python systems for about 10 years... asserts and integration tests are what make large scale python systems a pleasure to write.”

endorse · production · 10 yr · crdoconnor · 2019-06-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I don't run my production servers in debug mode, and even when I do manage to find the problem, I have limited options for solving it.”

mixed · production · weberc2 · 2019-04-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“This is exactly why we switched from Python to Go for some stuff.”

regret · production · ngrilly · 2019-02-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we've switched out the SICP-based 61A for a Pythonic 61A... It certainly hasn't driven away any CS students”

endorse · production · Ar-Curunir · 2018-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python is almost never an appropriate choice for building production systems. Even in cases where we use Python for models”

regret · production · bluejay2387 · 2018-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“One thing that plagues us about async Python in production is the propensity for a single synchronous call to bring down a server.”

regret · production · weberc2 · 2018-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We where able to delete so much code when we switched to Python 3.”

endorse · production · mrweasel · 2018-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We run a patched version on 3.3 with some backports from 3.4 on millions of machines... Python 3's Unicode handling has been a huge win for cross-platform deployments”

endorse · production · wbond · 2018-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“both mypy and enforce have problems in common that are probably coming from the way python itself is built”

regret · personal · qquark · 2018-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have been using it in places where I can and it is so nice.”

endorse · personal · quodlibetor · 2018-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“indentation-as-syntax -- which I've always hated, and I've been using Python since version 1.5 -- lack of switch statement is my #1 problem with Python.”

regret · personal · 21 yr · setpatchaddress · 2018-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“i was recently working with PyTorch and wishing I could use Common Lisp instead of Python, for various reasons.”

regret · personal · currymj · 2018-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“to the point of me almost giving up on the language itself”

regret · personal · 5 yr · grumps · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“every week I see errors in prod that would almost certainly not exist in Go code”

regret · production · 10 yr · weberc2 · 2018-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“With, say, C# code, or especially Python code, there are too many cases where a method call slips inside or outside the try/catch block”

regret · production · klodolph · 2018-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I honestly regret switching to python 3 at this point.”

regret · personal · update · 2018-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The amount of times some NodeJS or Python thing changed from underneath me and I needed to rework an entire codepath”

regret · production · anon1253 · 2018-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we (Python shop) have good test coverage and we still see 500s in prod every day because of things a type checker could trivially catch.”

regret · production · weberc2 · 2018-09-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Linting and optional static typing are two things I've come to appreciate.”

endorse · production · philwelch · 2017-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have python3 installed on all servers.”

endorse · production · dijit · 2017-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python 3 has just been a mess from my perspective.”

regret · personal · _sdegutis · 2017-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“old-school cron launched Python utility scripts, and that works nicely.”

endorse · personal · blunte · 2017-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Lots of python 2 code out there fails because the default option was simple but bad. I know, because my name broke the CI pipelines in a few different projects.”

regret · production · viraptor · 2017-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I use both Python and Go regularly and the use cases rarely overlap. They are both fantastic languages”

endorse · production · drej · 2017-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Ever tried to ship a frozen Python binary? Never again.”

regret · production · joshvm · 2017-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the global interpreter lock pretty much killed us.”

regret · production · unit91 · 2017-03-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I actually prefer python to it though.”

endorse · production · brianwawok · 2017-02-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“python2 --> python3 was bumpier and more work than most Django updates we've done”

mixed · production · po · 2017-01-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“where python works very well and Rust feels like overkill.”

endorse · personal · cmyr · 2016-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I think I've done that maybe a handful of times in production code... There is a huge value in Python's historical approach of straightforward code”

endorse · production · emidln · 2016-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“while there's occasional bugs, I love it”

mixed · personal · squeaky-clean · 2016-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python is still slow ... I'm still using Python largely because of the ecosystem and sane deployment options”

mixed · personal · rcarmo · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Especially when working in a large code-base I didn't write, Python is rough... I also love Python for scripty stuff.”

mixed · production · prewett · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use happily use python for introductory content and server-side web content”

endorse · production · natec425 · 2016-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I started by learning Python instead of the typical HTML-CSS-JS way. So I can build nice scripts”

endorse · personal · demoonkevin · 2016-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have a pretty minimal amount of code in production... Python 3 is not only the future but the current version of Python.”

endorse · production · jimnotgym · 2016-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I used a forking map in Python where the inner call was an image processing operation, and it was approximately #cores faster.”

endorse · production · kstrauser · 2016-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm a little uncomfortable continuing to writing new apps in Python 2.7 when they have a clear end of life date set now.”

mixed · production · jay_kyburz · 2016-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“stuck on Python 2.7, hitting issues left and right because of an ancient runtime that we no longer would care about were it not for Lambda.”

regret · production · scrollaway · 2016-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“So we switched to Python then ... and didn't look back.”

endorse · production · stinos · 2016-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Haven't had a single Unicode bug in production since we switched to Python 3.”

endorse · production · eeZi · 2016-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I write Python for a living, and my life has been a lot better since we switched.”

endorse · production · sevensor · 2016-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We run our batch file processing jobs in Python. It's not the fastest.”

mixed · production · wowzer · 2016-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“things like typos and type fails pretty much never happen to me, at least in production. My secret? I use the REPL, heavily.”

endorse · production · greendragon · 2016-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We moved from Python to Go. With Python behind uwsgi->nginx, we'd try to tune the number of uwsgi processes to cores”

regret · production · themartorana · 2016-06-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“That is one of my huge beef with python as well as the inability to control the scope of variables”

regret · production · julie1 · 2016-03-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we switched from Go to Python (using twisted), and dropped our memory use substantially”

endorse · production · windlep · 2016-03-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“in the projects where we switched from pure Python over to statically-typed Cython, it cleared up tons”

regret · production · p4wnc6 · 2016-01-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Within the last six months we've moved to writing all new code in Python 3 and migrating a fair bit of legacy code as well.”

endorse · production · 0.5 yr · rgacote · 2015-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we switched to pure python and have so far hit our performance benchmarks”

endorse · production · frozenport · 2015-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using Python 3.4 (and now 3.5) for development and couldn't been any happier. The async features, specifically, are amazing.”

endorse · personal · napsterbr · 2015-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we're moving from a primarily Python environment to... use Python for all user-facing web applications”

endorse · production · rgacote · 2015-07-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python, with all its magic methods and abstractions, made that very hard”

mixed · production · 1_player · 2015-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Advance to Python: pivot tables and plots via IPython/Jupyter notebooks with Pandas.”

endorse · personal · lmeyerov · 2015-07-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Stick with Python. It's great. I use it all the time for scripting and couldn't be happier.”

endorse · personal · 0942v8653 · 2015-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“when using Python the ecosystem is just exponentially bigger than Lua's”

endorse · personal · wink · 2015-07-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“In this case I very much prefer the behavior of vanilla Python.”

endorse · personal · ceronman · 2015-07-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I like working in Python, but I'm still waiting for that revelation.”

endorse · personal · 5 yr · wwweston · 2015-06-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python 3 isn't PERL 6, it takes time to supplant something as ubiquitous as Python 2”

endorse · personal · rectangletangle · 2015-06-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python is my language of choice du jour”

endorse · personal · analog31 · 2015-06-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm using Python 3 in production for an internationalized website and my experience has been that it handles Unicode pretty well.”

endorse · production · copsarebastards · 2015-05-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've loved coding in Python more than almost any other language”

endorse · personal · gknoy · 2015-05-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I switched one year ago, and I do not regret it. Better Unicode support is great for people like me”

endorse · personal · 1 yr · eeZi · 2015-05-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the Python platform is a very very late adopter of modern TLS standards”

regret · personal · giovannibajo1 · 2015-04-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“After we migrated to Python 3, we came to regret the decision with considerable regularity.”

regret · production · palmstroem · 2015-04-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Still I don't see much reason to not switch at this point. I don't believe that most developers would be missing anything.”

endorse · production · mrweasel · 2015-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I can't use just python 3 because python 2 is still widely used.”

regret · personal · plesner · 2015-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I selected Python as my main programming language... Python paid/pays my bills. I don't regret my decision not even a bit.”

endorse · production · amazing_jose · 2015-04-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Now I write python... That's much easier but it makes programming so much more mundane.”

mixed · personal · wiz21 · 2014-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I love Python for small scripts, and even don't regret it too much for programs with mild complexity (~5000 lines of Python), but the lack of explicit typing makes figuring out”

mixed · personal · robrenaud · 2014-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've rebuilt two startups from Scala / Python messes with Haskell.”

regret · production · Ixiaus · 2014-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It was painful in the beginning, but my recent experience has been very rewarding.”

mixed · personal · 1 yr · dustinfarris · 2014-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“multiprocessing (the modules) is problematic because not everything can be pickled.”

regret · production · gamesbrainiac · 2014-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use Python 3 for our current Flask projects with lots of dependencies without much trouble.”

endorse · production · Svenstaro · 2014-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use a lot of python stuff at work for automation, moving large video projects around, etc.”

mixed · production · deckiedan · 2014-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I find it excellent in production, and it's one of the backbones of Python as a 'data science' language.”

endorse · production · ehurrell · 2014-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We developed a number of large systems using Python 3, without any major problems.”

endorse · production · Pacabel · 2014-09-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“So we switched to Python in later projects, which does not require bureaucratic approval chains and provides code portability”

endorse · production · baojieai · 2014-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I don't see us stopping using Python any time soon... It has its place, and Go has its shortcomings, and together they make a nice balance.”

mixed · production · dvirsky · 2014-05-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It works fantastically well for complex shell script replacements and small projects... Where python annoys me is on a large code base (30K lines+).”

mixed · production · 8 yr · penguindev · 2014-01-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I use python daily at work and you can be safely assured the state of py3 on pypi is fu$$$$ed.”

regret · production · shadowmint · 2013-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“While there are many wonderful features in Py3 (I use it 100% in production at work)”

mixed · production · Ixiaus · 2013-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python is my go to language for fast scripting and programming.”

endorse · production · MojoJolo · 2013-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“has built production systems in Python for the last ~5 years”

endorse · production · 5 yr · pixelmonkey · 2013-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I moved to Python and will never look back.”

endorse · personal · danhoc01 · 2013-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I love Python, so Pelican is a total win for me.”

endorse · personal · omegote · 2013-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we tried first with a Python based one, but it was consuming too much memory, so I started this project.”

regret · production · dmoreno · 2013-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“For the short amount of time I've been using Python it has made me want to ditch PHP.”

endorse · personal · jbarrec · 2013-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I was introduced to programming through python... as much as I like programming in python”

endorse · personal · lelandbatey · 2013-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The Python 3 approach is by far the best one I've come across”

endorse · production · rkangel · 2013-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I would not attempt such a scheme in a language like Python (my primary language for some years) because its type system is not well adjusted”

regret · production · chrismorgan · 2013-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we've used Py3 in production at the last 2 startups I've worked at, and I use it extensively in my own side projects.”

endorse · production · e1ven · 2013-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I found it to be quite memory inefficient: data structures take up a lot of space, and the garbage collection didn't seem to be as effective”

regret · personal · randomsearch · 2013-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched from PHP to Python a few years back and the one thing I consistently miss is the documentation.”

mixed · production · robertfw · 2013-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“But that's frankly more of a Python architecture problem than Django. Django is compatible with coroutine libraries like gevent, just most of the ecosystem is not compatible”

mixed · production · mattrobenolt · 2013-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python, which is readily available on most systems, and mostly 'just works'.”

endorse · production · koffiezet · 2012-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“FWIW over the past few years it's proven to be a good choice for us.”

endorse · production · 3amOpsGuy · 2012-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We also use python in production at plotwatt for machine learning.”

endorse · production · dwiel · 2012-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I use Python for nearly all of my ETL processes that involve text processing. Even in production systems, I'd be hard-pressed to admit any significant performance issues.”

endorse · production · law · 2012-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Our python repo was built from the group up and we use it for lots of things, in fact I think it is larger than our PHP repo.”

endorse · production · birken · 2012-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use Python prolifically at my day job, what few type errors that occur are usually related to None”

endorse · production · codewright · 2012-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Better to stick to Python for that.”

endorse · personal · id_ris · 2012-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“have been using it without a glitch for four years”

endorse · production · 4 yr · SiVal · 2012-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using Python3 intensely for three or four years and have long forgotten Python2.”

endorse · personal · 3 yr · SiVal · 2012-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Other python and java processes running similar operations handle this much better.”

endorse · production · narsil · 2012-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I am currently involved in refactoring a big Python code base and I oh-so regret Python (which I like very much) is so easy-going on these issues.”

mixed · production · gbog · 2012-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python and so on are only useful for coordinating stuff when the task is embarrassingly and massively parallel.”

mixed · production · willvarfar · 2012-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I wouldn't say I regret having chosen Python as the basis of a 250k-line system”

mixed · production · dmbaggett · 2012-09-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“until I finally decided to move to python. Since then, I never look back”

endorse · personal · Protostome · 2012-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“vim works just fine, as do R, matlab, python, scipy, bash, awk, sed, etc”

endorse · production · earl · 2012-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I don't agree that this is a design flaw. As I recall it bit me once as a beginner, and never again in over a decade of using python”

endorse · personal · 10 yr · Estragon · 2012-05-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“My side projects are in horribly wasteful monstrosities like Python and Objective-C/Foundation because, in my spare time, I like projects to actually get finished”

mixed · personal · mrmekon · 2012-04-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use Python/Django and MySQL. Pretty boring to be honest, which I'm digging after spending nearly five years working on crazy ass big infrastructure.”

endorse · production · stump · 2011-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python is one of three or four primary languages we use for everything.”

endorse · production · Ogre · 2011-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've written a few toy programs in Python, enough to establish that it's a worthy programming language.”

endorse · personal · cwilbur · 2011-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“it will be dramatically simpler for us to make changes to the server now that it's written in python.”

endorse · production · trefn · 2011-08-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“even though I've been using python for several years I'm still constantly surprised by it's core features”

endorse · personal · kefeizhou · 2010-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I use Python + Redis using Hotqueue for all the processing of flurbils.com.”

endorse · production · unoti · 2010-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using Python for the last two years and I totally love it.”

endorse · personal · 2 yr · barnaby · 2010-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I find myself comfortable indenting code in Python than write matching HTML tags.”

endorse · personal · xtacy · 2010-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I love it and only can say it is 100% worth the switch! I'll never again code in pre-3k if not forced to.”

endorse · personal · fnl · 2010-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python is our language of choice as well. The logic we use is that it's in most/all of the cases the lesser of the two evils.”

endorse · production · levigross · 2010-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python seemed really refreshingly clean compared to Perl and C++... I still think it's a decent language”

mixed · personal · silentbicycle · 2010-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using App Engine+Python exclusively for side projects since its release and never run into these problems.”

endorse · personal · 2 yr · f7u12 · 2010-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“My base web development stack today is Python2.7+Flask+Fabric. I'm loving it.”

endorse · personal · jgalvez · 2010-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“have been using Python at my job and in my personal projects for about a year and a half now, and have grown to prefer Python”

endorse · production · 1.5 yr · jrheard · 2010-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The nice thing is being able to program everything in Python”

endorse · personal · juiceandjuice · 2010-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“PETSc uses Python for configuration and we have to be careful not to use any features requiring >2.3.”

mixed · production · jedbrown · 2010-09-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we switched to python and could not be happier, the only problem is supporting an old rails app”

endorse · production · piramida · 2010-08-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have been programming Python for many years now, along with a mix of C#, Scala and some F#.”

mixed · production · jeswin · 2010-08-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The fact we can use a reference implementation in production environments is great.”

endorse · production · rbanffy · 2010-07-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Because python decorators take heavy advantage of closures, we run into a problem where external code cannot determine appropriate actions”

mixed · production · sophacles · 2010-03-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“They are load balanced from our Python servers... I love Python - - so I don't have any bias and I would gladly use Python if it could scale.”

mixed · production · amix · 2010-02-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Sure, I got an A+ and I know Python's internals well, but damn what a miss for me.”

neutral · personal · ashkankiani · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I work with Python today without type annotations... I have been using Python for over 20 years.”

neutral · production · 20 yr · zahlman · 2026-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Having to build all dependencies of rust including python and openssl and everything else”

neutral · production · lrvick · 2026-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm currently working in flet.dev using Python which allowed me to get a small prototype up-and-running”

neutral · personal · WillAdams · 2026-09-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I had spent a lot of free time in my last year of school creating visualizations in Python for fun”

neutral · personal · ddejohn · 2026-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“it's quite hard to ship because some pip packages require to be built.”

neutral · production · bionsystem · 2026-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched to it shortly after switching to Python as our main language, figuring it would be easier to use the one written in Python.”

neutral · production · jedberg · 2026-05-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have QA people and Product Managers using Claude to develop better integration and reporting tools in Python.”

neutral · production · jeremyjh · 2026-04-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Just a Python file you drop next to your server.”

neutral · personal · brian200 · 2026-03-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“10 years ago we started out with Python. We switched to Go probably 8 years back.”

neutral · production · 2 yr · tschellenbach · 2026-01-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We had python scripts that generated GitLab CI/CD yaml”

neutral · production · doublet00th · 2025-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“when you use it, it's basically still pip. Except it makes everything easy.”

neutral · production · Quothling · 2025-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“my programming knowledge is primarily system languages+python.”

neutral · personal · luiwammus · 2025-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“master the stack we use at work: C# for plugins, Python and Powershell for IT admin”

neutral · production · CornySensei · 2025-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The Python code depends on the C/C++ code via ctypes and cffi”

neutral · production · amluto · 2025-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'd quite often write a Python C-API extension so I could do the same thing using Python's repl.”

neutral · personal · UncleEntity · 2025-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using Python professionally since 2005 ... because we relied on the behaviour at work”

neutral · production · 20 yr · bostik · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We instrument Python, Node/TS, and Java to record deep context into a circular buffer.”

neutral · production · morethananai · 2025-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using LLMs to generate different Python and JS tools for wrangling data for ontology engineering purposes.”

neutral · personal · TomasBM · 2025-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I did and the only regret I've got is that I didn't do it sooner.”

neutral · production · baq · 2025-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I am originally Python/BE/ML engineer. But I've built in the last years many Frontend”

neutral · production · resiros · 2025-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I moved to writing in Python. Now when I write Perl, I do silly things like forget semicolons.”

neutral · production · cafard · 2025-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“what I don't like is mixing sql and python”

neutral · personal · somat · 2025-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I wrote a python script that reverse engineers protobuf schemas from disassembled code”

neutral · personal · dunham · 2025-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I wrote my own agent state machine in pretty much pure async Python (no libs). Running successfully in prod with very few issues.”

neutral · production · extasia · 2025-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“import threading # needed for python 3.13, at least at the REPL, because reasons”

neutral · personal · zahlman · 2025-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We have quite a large code base and very few `# type: ignore[code]` directives.”

neutral · production · flanked-evergl · 2025-09-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Look at the way we run LLMs now, tons of models, 5 lines of Python”

neutral · production · Loic · 2025-09-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“written and maintained a good bit of Python in prod”

neutral · production · gen220 · 2025-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“do the pip install stage in a 2CPU/4GB Gitlab runner, which feels like it should be sufficient for the uv:python3.12-bookworm image”

neutral · production · alisonatwork · 2025-08-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“System python version is 3.12: $ python3 --version Python 3.12.3”

neutral · personal · danudey · 2025-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm about equally productive in go, python or rust.”

neutral · production · sophacles · 2025-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have limited Python skills, but CC helped me focus on what I wanted to get done”

neutral · production · rtp4me · 2025-07-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“cgi-helper = .py=/webapps/cgi-bin/venv/bin/python3 # all dependencies go here”

neutral · production · gvalkov · 2025-07-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have a Python script I created that will automatically login to YouTube with a "clean" account”

neutral · production · rob · 2025-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“translated into Polars operations under the covers in Python”

neutral · production · irridiance · 2025-05-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“about 10 years of Java/C++/Rust/Python under my belt (focused on Financial Market applications)”

neutral · production · 10 yr · phyalow · 2025-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“And then Java to Python. And now we write code in English.”

neutral · production · polski-g · 2025-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I find it difficult to write a throwaway python script without doing this.”

neutral · personal · jandrewrogers · 2025-04-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“So we use the Dagger python API to define and run our CI builds.”

neutral · production · rgilton · 2025-03-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“My main language is python and for that I use jedi-vim”

neutral · personal · jgb1984 · 2024-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have small python script that generates the columns (way-points) and cards (bib numbers).”

neutral · personal · ytjohn · 2024-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“For work projects we use poetry because of an assumption that we would need something better but I remain unconvinced”

neutral · production · These335 · 2024-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I always exported the conda yaml file and managed to reproduce the code/environment including the Python version.”

neutral · personal · alsodumb · 2024-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“My background is in Reinforcement learning/Model predictive control/python.”

neutral · production · hazrmard · 2024-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The mutations are posted back to a Python api that applies them to the db.”

neutral · production · aidos · 2024-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“either we use bash or Python for the recipe.”

neutral · production · BeetleB · 2024-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've also done similar systems in other languages, especially Node.js, Python, and Rust, but they haven't been as productive”

neutral · production · blixt · 2024-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We run standard python, so we can build with any kafka library.”

neutral · production · jedberg · 2024-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“this is my experience coming from Java, Node, and Python”

neutral · production · faizshah · 2024-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“packaged Ruby and Python CLIs that runs commands. The runtime was k8s.”

neutral · production · braza · 2024-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“with a smattering of Python and R in between.”

neutral · production · YeGoblynQueenne · 2024-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“had prior exp in php, python, java, Go, and Typescript, and enjoyed most of them”

neutral · production · cloverich · 2024-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“involved a number of Python scripts to pull out the data from QB”

neutral · production · human_llm · 2024-10-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Anyway I reach for Python sooner and really hunger for a clean, robust nix shell”

neutral · personal · Aurelius108 · 2024-09-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“To help with circular import, we switched a few years ago to lazily importing submodules on demand, and never switched back.”

neutral · production · SuchAnonMuchWow · 2024-09-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I wrote Python to auto generate test cases.”

neutral · personal · Neywiny · 2024-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I started working on scripts doing all sorts of ETL (in Python - was my intro to the language)”

neutral · production · 11 yr · sirfz · 2024-06-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“years ago we switched from python to go”

neutral · production · tschellenbach · 2024-04-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“My first popular web app kept all state in a python dict that was dumped to disk every few minutes.”

neutral · production · QuadmasterXLII · 2024-03-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have written a couple million lines of python professionally. Some of that is still in prod.”

neutral · production · sophacles · 2024-02-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Generating SQL in python sounds dangerous, but we spent a lot of time on making it secure.”

neutral · production · ancieque · 2024-02-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I went from Basic to Pascal to C/C++ to Java to Python which bear more than a passing resemblance to one another.”

neutral · personal · dventimi · 2023-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“In my tests I think I saw a 20-30% improvement at best compared to versions from 5 years ago.”

neutral · personal · mardifoufs · 2023-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“adds physical unit syntax to python”

neutral · personal · ahupp · 2023-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It's all written in Python.”

neutral · personal · naddeo · 2023-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“lately I've been using a single python script which more or less does what Flyway does”

neutral · personal · mattbillenstein · 2023-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we run the same logic in a Java service, Java client, Python client”

neutral · production · kigero · 2023-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using Jupyter to teach Python and Pandas to a lot of companies over the years”

neutral · production · reuven · 2023-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Product information view and search system using FastAPI and HTMX (for live search)”

neutral · production · yosoyhxr · 2023-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“My custom instruction is "We use Python 3 with strict typing"”

neutral · production · lijok · 2023-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“going from PHP, ASP, .NET, RoR, clojure, Python then JavaScript for the longest”

neutral · production · meiraleal · 2023-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“20 years of muscle memory writing bash / python / perl / awk / sql / ruby / JS / CSS selectors”

neutral · production · 20 yr · seanp2k2 · 2023-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“make entire sites with flask, python, html+js+css, backed with SQLite db and it's amazing.”

neutral · production · cryptoz · 2023-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We heavily use microservices but we have a well defined stack. Python/gunicorn/flask/mongodb with k8s.”

neutral · production · orochimaaru · 2023-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use to download/configure/make the source tarball from python.org. When pyenv came along, we switched over”

neutral · production · kstrauser · 2023-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We moved to python then arduino/microbit/etc and then to c and now to riscv assembler”

neutral · personal · throwaway71271 · 2023-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I recently launched a startup, we use Java, some Python and even a little bit of Rust.”

neutral · production · olavgg · 2023-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Put "logger.info("Queue size: %d", 'hello')" int your source and it'll pass all the unit tests”

neutral · production · theamk · 2023-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we had to write Python connectors for a variety of ERP systems.”

neutral · production · kfk · 2023-08-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“There's a huge module in our python codebase that approaches building queries in roughly raw SQL.”

neutral · production · jredwards · 2023-08-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Dashboards running complex python + pandas tasks that pull from postgres”

neutral · production · bluecoconut · 2023-08-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We migrated our api server from flask Python to node-express-typescript.”

neutral · production · nojvek · 2023-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Where I currently work, most of our code is in Python.”

neutral · production · Stratoscope · 2023-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we migrated an old Python API to Go, with the same interface contract”

neutral · production · thiht · 2023-05-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'd love to do this in Python, but unfortunately we can't.”

neutral · production · BiteCode_dev · 2023-05-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched to c# and python and js/ts for new dev at some point”

neutral · production · monkeycantype · 2023-04-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“A small thing in Nim that I regularly miss in Python”

neutral · personal · eindiran · 2023-04-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The services run the gamut in terms of role and language, including everything from stock haproxy images to esoteric Python or JS images.”

neutral · production · chatmasta · 2023-03-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The only reason we switched to Python and Twisted for the first gen Matrix server (synapse) was for rapid prototyping”

neutral · production · Arathorn · 2023-03-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I feel like a boomer just compiling Python from source and using venv/pip/setuptools/wheel until all the stupidity blows over.”

neutral · personal · nerpderp82 · 2023-03-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I wrote a bad parser that extracted the code from rST and put them into python files that we then ran.”

neutral · production · boxed · 2023-02-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“this portion of our Python linting toolchain”

neutral · production · tabbott · 2023-01-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we migrated a few hundred thousands lines of Py2 spread over dozens of services”

neutral · production · vkazanov · 2023-01-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have been using primarily Python for the last ~4 years or so.”

neutral · production · 4 yr · xwowsersx · 2022-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I had hoped it would help solve the problem of large codebases in Python.”

neutral · production · MrJohz · 2022-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have been using it for the past six months to do mostly backend development in Python.”

neutral · personal · 0.5 yr · nicolaslem · 2022-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“In the past two years I've done hands on keyboard coding in Python, C#, JavaScript, and Go.”

neutral · production · 2 yr · scarface74 · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“This is our first experience generating docs for a single project that spans C, C++, Python, Java, and GoLang”

neutral · production · ashvardanian · 2022-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I encounter this endlessly in prod code with both Python and Kotlin chained functional style garbage.”

neutral · production · n0tth3dro1ds · 2022-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using IntelliJ for Scala, Elm, and Python”

neutral · personal · tasuki · 2022-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We used alembic for database migrations. It was a Python Flask app.”

neutral · production · samsquire · 2022-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I was very interested in it as I do both python and C, but it somehow was just not that popular”

neutral · production · synergy20 · 2022-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the models are deployed as something called a "pickle file" ... All of the tooling is setup around Python”

neutral · production · bigger_cheese · 2022-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We were able to completely eliminate a few python services and consolidate to all Elixir for ETL and ML.”

neutral · production · cigrainger · 2022-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've spent most of my career with perl, python, c#, and java”

neutral · production · saxonww · 2022-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I implement this in Python”

neutral · personal · memorable · 2022-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Then we switched to RPi, writing simple games in Python, then we made a raytracer in plain C”

neutral · personal · orbital-decay · 2022-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Infosec at work tend to raise a ruckus when their scans detect "older" versions of Python on machines too”

neutral · production · nibbleshifter · 2022-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I wrote several custom tools in Python, and we used Jenkins as our CI/CD server.”

neutral · production · baryphonic · 2022-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Not a Python developer and even I use it in prod. Even if you disregard all the tools and web services.”

neutral · production · raxxorraxor · 2022-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We implemented a couple of small DSL classes in Python to be able to define YARA-like rules”

neutral · production · kissgyorgy · 2022-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“wsgi servers like gunicorn will hapilly reload the workers when it receives SIGHUP in prod”

neutral · production · BiteCode_dev · 2022-09-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we have engineers writing in Python (more data heavy stuff), and engineers writing Javascript.”

neutral · production · Nimsical · 2022-08-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“at least I can run 3 different spark pipelines and 4 Python applications without needing to dig into the specifics”

neutral · production · FridgeSeal · 2022-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“they hired me because my resume was the first one on craigslist that had Python on it.”

neutral · production · carapace · 2022-07-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've used each of those languages and also use Kotlin both on the JVM and in the browser.”

neutral · personal · jillesvangurp · 2022-07-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“our CI system for one of our tools runs commands like `pip install -U setuptools`.”

neutral · production · danudey · 2022-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the actual version we run nowadays is using UEFI and written in Go (installer) + Python (API that generates the ISO on demand)”

neutral · production · deivid · 2022-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“When we moved to python/Java we could stop worrying about managing memory.”

neutral · production · natefinch · 2022-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“mostly Python for personal projects currently”

neutral · personal · closeparen · 2022-06-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“v1: IRC API to process scoped servers (Python backend, haxe front end)”

neutral · production · dayjah · 2022-06-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We replaced SSMS + SQL Server with Python + SQLite run in AWS Lambda.”

neutral · production · thesketh · 2022-04-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“having built on things like Python+FastAPI, Node+Express/Hapi/Apollo, and Rust+Actix”

neutral · production · Tsarbomb · 2022-04-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched our python task processing from celery to pubsub”

neutral · production · e-brake · 2022-03-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Not sure how I feel about Python (or Java) as a first language.”

neutral · personal · bee_rider · 2022-03-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Mostly CPython.”

neutral · production · mwcampbell · 2022-02-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We had a Python + Angular stack so among our first conversations went like”

neutral · production · skytreader · 2021-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“and then Python for plumbing code.”

neutral · production · gjulianm · 2021-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“a stupid python script on Windows to switch video inputs.”

neutral · personal · intrepidhero · 2021-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“as someone who has tinkered with it a lot but uses python/C++ for $day_job”

neutral · production · fault1 · 2021-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have found Rust to be a surprisingly good replacement for a lot of my Python use-cases.”

neutral · personal · paulgb · 2021-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we generate most of the codecs based on the type annotations on the Python side.”

neutral · production · akaptur · 2021-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Our stack is based on all docker containerized python.”

neutral · production · kortex · 2021-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been writing Python for to long to know that wait_for_item() -> any will backfire in production eventually”

neutral · production · fiedzia · 2021-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I enjoy programming for myself, and taking some challenges in Python currently”

neutral · personal · spaniard89277 · 2021-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use python primarily, and while this plugin does support Python a bit, it's got some issues.”

neutral · production · jvolkman · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I wrote METAR and TAF module for it to get more detailed weather (and learn some Python).”

neutral · personal · michaelnik · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Our entire deployment stack is Java/Python on Linux.”

neutral · production · InvaderFizz · 2021-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We have a mixture of python, java, go, protobuf, and node.”

neutral · production · jvolkman · 2021-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we also use EFS to run Python based functions that have dependencies that are too big for the Lambda itself.”

neutral · production · rememberlenny · 2021-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Switch to using Pip inside the Conda env to suss out what the non-Python deps are.”

neutral · production · nerdponx · 2021-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We have about 100k lines of python.”

neutral · production · gpderetta · 2021-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“A lot of Python in the backend.”

neutral · production · massiarri · 2021-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“when we switched to Python from .NET, it didn't feel like any of the function knowledge carried over”

neutral · production · throw1234651234 · 2021-09-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“a Python library that downloads missing LIDAR or SRTM data”

neutral · production · dabreegster · 2021-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“if you are using python for production software engineering, and aren't typing most (>50%) of your function signatures”

neutral · production · kortex · 2021-08-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It's 10 years old and still uses python 2.7, jquery and a hellish handcrafted css mess.”

neutral · production · BiteCode_dev · 2021-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we still handle quite a bit of internal data or services in Python and Powershell”

neutral · production · moksly · 2021-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've written a Python script to read out the scale via a Raspberry Pi”

neutral · personal · qwertox · 2021-08-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use Python/Flask for backend.”

neutral · production · pinepage · 2021-08-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use Json in our Python projects and Avro in our Java projects.”

neutral · production · EamonnMR · 2021-08-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I use it for Python/pandas forecasting work.”

neutral · production · efxhoy · 2021-04-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we did try a lot of other backend stacks (Go, PHP, Clojure, Python, ...)”

neutral · personal · cygned · 2021-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“wrote a simply Python tool to automate setting up servers for deploying containerized workloads”

neutral · personal · KronisLV · 2021-03-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Source availability aside, I suggest anyone running CPython in prod take a look.”

neutral · production · qeternity · 2021-02-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“fullstack Python + Django -> frontend role with backbone/knockout/angular”

neutral · production · bradlys · 2021-02-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we also worked with python, nodejs, some Go.”

neutral · production · throw20210211 · 2021-02-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I made a script to backport a project I had developed in py3.6 ... but when I wanted to use it in prod at work it had to be py3.4”

neutral · production · galbar · 2021-02-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Having to even spend time learning how to debug Python code inside a locally running docker container.”

neutral · personal · mherrmann · 2021-01-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“On projects where that wasn't a risk, we moved to Python around 2014 or so.”

neutral · production · 7 yr · adamc · 2021-01-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“There are tests written on the .py side, IO functions and what not too.”

neutral · production · proverbialbunny · 2021-01-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python never took hold even if we bought Anaconda entreprise.”

neutral · production · meztez · 2020-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I never have to worry about OS-level Python installation stuff any more.”

neutral · personal · ryan-duve · 2020-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use Python for data processing and machine learning.”

neutral · production · tinco · 2020-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using FastAPI for new projects. The way it takes advantage of Python typing”

neutral · production · WD-42 · 2020-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We did write our own tool to handle boilerplate of linking python functions to their lambda handlers”

neutral · production · abcxjeb284 · 2020-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I wrote the software -it's Python3 and C.”

neutral · personal · another_comment · 2020-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“At my day job, all the stuff we put in Docker is either Python (generally portable), Java (generally portable), or Go”

neutral · production · geofft · 2020-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I learnt Rust as a JavaScript/PHP/Python programmer who needed better performance for a project”

neutral · production · nicoburns · 2020-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“BashOperators that run individual Python scripts and should probably switch to PythonOperators soon.”

neutral · personal · arthurcolle · 2020-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Now that I have decent enough mastery of python to be dangerous”

neutral · personal · louwrentius · 2020-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we use it for regression testing of GUI screenshots.”

neutral · production · drothlis · 2020-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using Python daily for probably a decade and I didn't know there was an ascii() built-in.”

neutral · production · 10 yr · rgovostes · 2020-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“That's what I use for current Python releases and it seems to have more recent Ruby versions”

neutral · production · acdha · 2020-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“My experience across ruby, python, and js codebases”

neutral · production · cactus2093 · 2020-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“For one task there was a great python library so we use python and sent to it requests from PHP”

neutral · production · simion314 · 2020-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“This is where I've become a staunch proponent of type hinting Python code.”

neutral · production · nuclear_eclipse · 2020-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the rest of our stack is mostly Python, so we couldn't use a lot of the common tooling”

neutral · production · amzans · 2020-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have been working with Python/Scala for my full-time job over the past 3.5 years”

neutral · production · 3.5 yr · amzans · 2020-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“when I'm coding in python I like to prototype in jupyter, copy code over, and then reimport anyway.”

neutral · production · erikgaas · 2020-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I developed that tweak for Python 2.7 and I am running in production with Python 3.6.”

neutral · production · lbolla · 2020-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“since we don't use SAM, we have to do unit testing separately (our code is in Python).”

neutral · production · lovehashbrowns · 2020-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“that python couldn't un-pickle into an object, because the class attributes didn't match”

neutral · production · Izkata · 2020-09-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we started out by using Python / Django.”

neutral · production · Erazal · 2020-09-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've edited PHP or Python or Ruby files directly.”

neutral · production · solarengineer · 2020-08-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Coming from Java, Kotlin, C#, Python I first thouhgt Go was a bad joke”

neutral · personal · challenge441 · 2020-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've been using semgrep for Zulip's python codebase for the last few months”

neutral · production · tabbott · 2020-07-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“nano with a T9 input typing Python is something I will never want to do ever again. Oh yeah, editing code on a live server.”

neutral · production · chewxy · 2020-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The Python simulations we run in-browser are indeed using Pyodide in part!”

neutral · production · DavidWilkinson · 2020-06-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I heard back... All Python. No type stuff. It's very obvious where to make any changes.”

neutral · production · at_a_remove · 2020-06-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“took longer with celery really (back on python 2.7) but that system has been in prod for 6 years”

neutral · production · robbiep · 2020-05-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“years of struggling with obsolete Python versions (like author here with 3.5)”

neutral · personal · Drdrdrq · 2020-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“in settings.py DEBUG = bool(os.getenv('DEBUG', False)).”

neutral · production · 1337shadow · 2020-04-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“really there seemed to be no benefit of being able to write Python for it.”

neutral · production · mtalantikite · 2020-04-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“ssh into an interpreter gives me perfect control... I've done this for over a decade.”

neutral · production · 10 yr · emidln · 2020-03-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we switched to black for Python about a year ago”

neutral · production · Lutzb · 2020-02-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm saying this as someone who dragged a team kicking and screaming from Python to Go.”

neutral · production · outworlder · 2020-02-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched out some API code from Perl and Python to Go.”

neutral · production · sethammons · 2020-01-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've tried Python, Go, Rust, Julia.”

neutral · personal · meztez · 2019-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“As a Python/MATLAB guy, the syntax is very friendly.”

neutral · personal · starpilot · 2019-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use getopt style command line parameter parsing in at least Java, Perl, Python, and BASH at work”

neutral · production · ohithereyou · 2019-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've replaced most of the old Python.”

neutral · production · sethammons · 2019-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using Python to generate a static Hugo site from a (sort of) CRM API.”

neutral · production · dhruvkar · 2019-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“a need to really verify unicode handling all over the place (especially in a 10 year old codebase)”

neutral · production · dangoor · 2019-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“going back to that from using Python, Ruby, and even PHP was a shock.”

neutral · production · bluedino · 2019-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“R is unlike any other programming language that I have used before (also on an off) from Perl, C to Python and Java”

neutral · personal · glofish · 2019-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“to run all our projects in Python with venv in project”

neutral · production · dragonsh · 2019-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using Python for years and the only two of these I knew were the __enter__ and comparator dunders!”

neutral · personal · bussierem · 2019-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“after learning languages like python”

neutral · personal · natalyarostova · 2019-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I actually started programming with this very book, copying the examples from it into Python and then Scheme”

neutral · personal · 0db532a0 · 2019-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've recently started doing MIT's introductory CS course on python and I'm really liking it so far.”

neutral · personal · nerdwolf · 2019-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I ported a fairly complex (thousands of lines of code, in use in production) program from Python to Go.”

neutral · production · dantillberg · 2019-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Models and feature engineering done in python, trained locally, weights uploaded to S3.”

neutral · production · FridgeSeal · 2019-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Models are written in Python (mix of pytorch/NLP/tensorF).”

neutral · production · superkitty · 2019-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“a half-baked python/django effort that is currently in prod”

neutral · production · dnautics · 2019-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We decided early on for our large project that developing separately and having a version shear where we "switched" to python3 would probably be chaos.”

neutral · production · misnome · 2019-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we were new to Python when we started this project two years ago”

neutral · production · 2 yr · wisemanwillhear · 2019-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched from Python to Go over 2 years ago”

neutral · production · tschellenbach · 2019-07-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“One of the programs we run at work is an online 5 week competition where you learn to code (either with Blocky or Python)”

neutral · production · kenni · 2019-06-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We actually built a data lake (with Python and MySQL)”

neutral · production · snowwrestler · 2019-06-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Our code base is primarily Python.”

neutral · production · photonios · 2019-03-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The Python multiprocessing pool has even not changed API when we migrated from Python 2 to 3 and works with both”

neutral · production · sametmax · 2019-02-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've written our own blue-green deployment scripts for Spring Boot, Node.js/React/Vue, and Python.”

neutral · production · karmakaze · 2018-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“One thing that plagues us about async Python in production is the propensity for a single synchronous call to bring down a server.”

neutral · production · optimuspaul · 2018-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“bigger projects with multiple persons at work in C++, Python, etc.”

neutral · production · aerique · 2018-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“our data pipelines are in Python, Java and Scala”

neutral · production · manish_gill · 2018-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been a big Python user for years with a smattering of a dozen other technologies”

neutral · personal · 4thaccount · 2018-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm a scientific programmer working on electric grid simulations in Python.”

neutral · production · maliker · 2018-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Ported a game side project I've been working on from Python + Kivy to Rust + Piston”

neutral · personal · Macha · 2018-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I encountered this funny situation in Python. Python library doesn't provide this kind of functionality.”

neutral · personal · tanin · 2018-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“you could use Python annotations on API methods to specify this kind of setup on API endpoints”

neutral · production · KirinDave · 2018-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I added mypy type annotations to a bunch of old projects and it found some bugs no one was aware of right away.”

neutral · personal · Rotareti · 2018-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python beginner here - I would suggest looking at Flask or Django and getting that running on a local webserver”

neutral · personal · djaychela · 2018-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have to say I want to use Python 3. There is no way to say I accept anything 3.5+”

neutral · personal · moonsun · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Where I work atm (it's a big corporation) we use about 50% R, 50% Python”

neutral · production · alexgmcm · 2018-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“everything is done via ansible/repeatable deploys (and some python and bash scripts).”

neutral · production · noir_lord · 2018-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We can eliminate repeated deployment pain for Python code with C dependencies by deploying the manylinux wheel to Layers.”

neutral · production · teej · 2018-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“That version was too slow, by two orders of magnitude.”

neutral · production · olooney · 2018-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Python would be in the middle.”

neutral · personal · wglb · 2018-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I wrote a Python utility that carries these (nasty) migrations out from end-to-end.”

neutral · production · seanharr11 · 2018-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Eventually taught myself just enough Python to pivot into a junior fullstack position (and have since had several promotions there).”

neutral · production · indigochill · 2018-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“our backend is in Python Django”

neutral · production · ankit219 · 2018-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We just use a requirements.txt for each service and run pip with the -r flag in the dockerfile.”

neutral · production · VonGallifrey · 2018-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“This fits in a 200 LOC Python script.”

neutral · production · Rotareti · 2018-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“most of which use Golang, some Python and Node and Java.”

neutral · production · Zimbleton · 2018-09-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I chose Plone/Zope/Python the same stack that was used by CIA.”

neutral · production · tonyoconnell · 2018-09-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We also package it up with a Python server that does some additional delegated work”

neutral · production · bmurphy1976 · 2018-07-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we ended up writing something equivalent in python”

neutral · production · tty7 · 2018-03-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we've switched to python for new development.”

neutral · production · extortionist · 2018-01-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“some of these run in Linux, php, nodes, python and so on.”

neutral · production · eksemplar · 2017-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using python scripts to manages my photos”

neutral · personal · jonathankoren · 2017-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we have switched to python for our FaaS but only because of lack of Ruby support from AWS lambda.”

neutral · production · flowardnut · 2017-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I sidestep this issue on my personal projects by using Docker w/ Python”

neutral · production · imauld · 2017-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I try to use Python whenever it's an option”

neutral · personal · djsumdog · 2017-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I use VS Code over PyCharm for writing Python code”

neutral · personal · rockostrich · 2017-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using cbor with python and it's been just fantastic.”

neutral · personal · RantyDave · 2017-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“On the Pi I'm basically using a busy loop to decode the signal in Python.”

neutral · personal · 1.5 yr · bschwindHN · 2017-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“these are numbers comparing the official images to these images we built using the standard Python benchmarks.”

neutral · personal · frankwiles · 2017-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have been using Ansible exclusively with Python 3 for over a year”

neutral · personal · 1 yr · guhcampos · 2017-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using --enable-optimizations for a while, and built my own 3.6 images a couple of weeks back.”

neutral · personal · rcarmo · 2017-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“a Python list variable, for instance, is _really_ storing a memory address of a list”

neutral · personal · alew1 · 2017-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We then move onto Python, and _do_ talk about an "environment" (stack) and a "heap"”

neutral · production · alew1 · 2017-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the client libraries I tried in Python did not handle concurrent reads/writes”

neutral · personal · logicallee · 2017-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“So it's written in Python and the main API we rely on is IBM's Speech to Text.”

neutral · production · craigcannon · 2017-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“At home I work on side projects with .NET and Python.”

neutral · personal · BurningFire · 2017-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“However, we run full CPython (2.7 and 3.6) on the server, so any language feature you like is just a function call away”

neutral · production · meredydd · 2017-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We need to mix JVM with C++ with a sprinkle of Python [via jep].”

neutral · production · pacala · 2017-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I need to run microservices one written fro Python 2.4, another for Pythn 2.7+, another for Python 3.3”

neutral · production · nnq · 2017-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We are starting to build simple docker containers for python via RHEL SCL version”

neutral · production · epalmer · 2017-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“when we moved from Python->C++ I used Microsoft's https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk C++ REST SDK”

neutral · production · hemancuso · 2017-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“This is all automated with python scripts and airflow.”

neutral · production · mattbillenstein · 2017-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“As long as you don't need multiple versions of the Python interpreter, this works fine.”

neutral · production · icebraining · 2017-09-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We had three versions of the 2.X series and two versions of the 3.X series because of mixing-and-matching base images we used plus management deciding”

neutral · production · SomeStupidPoint · 2017-08-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I write Python and C everyday. I am highly proficient in both.”

neutral · production · grive · 2017-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“it's been so long since we've run CPython, and also because we've now got ~10 apps or so that run on PyPy.”

neutral · production · JulianWasTaken · 2017-08-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“My company has a python API that we run on our machines, we sell the machines to businesses”

neutral · production · myusernameisok · 2017-08-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we've replaced Python, Ruby, and Java based systems with golang based ones.”

neutral · production · tomohawk · 2017-07-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Pylint assumes it's possible to statically parse code and make some simple assumptions about things like class / module members”

neutral · production · pebers · 2017-07-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“a combination of node js, golang, and Python/flask apps”

neutral · production · nstart · 2017-07-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We went with Python for this (toy) quiz because it's the most common language we see among applicants.”

neutral · production · ammon · 2017-05-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“All the development we do ourselves is on .Net core, Java or Python”

neutral · production · eksemplar · 2017-05-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we switched our API service from Python to Go at the release of Go 1.1”

neutral · production · nemothekid · 2017-03-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I never have to worry about whether or not python 2.7 is installed on a server that I'm going to deploy a python 3 app on.”

neutral · production · k2xl · 2017-02-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“PS: I'm from C++ and python background.”

neutral · personal · xk0nsid · 2016-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use python for all of our local and back-end ML processing pipeline.”

neutral · production · lowglow · 2016-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using type notations with all my Python 3.5+ projects (and works very well with PyCharm)”

neutral · production · chuckus · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the searching is done by a query generated in the Python backend”

neutral · production · jeffdn · 2016-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“as well as a couple of years of Python here and there”

neutral · personal · 2 yr · cyphar · 2016-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Everything on our development stack (largely python) worked straight out of the box.”

neutral · production · enjo · 2016-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“it's recently replaced my old favorites like matlab / python / lua.”

neutral · personal · divbit · 2016-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“For example, I began learning Python and I think this was the first question I asked on the mailing list”

neutral · personal · Jugurtha · 2016-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using it to code and debug python for a few months now”

neutral · personal · 0.25 yr · redpieintheface · 2016-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“although we use Python on our servers, we don't expect server candidates to know Python.”

neutral · production · asher · 2016-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I use both on a regular basis and I've been using Python for over a decade.”

neutral · personal · 10 yr · fogleman · 2016-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm primarily a C++/Python developer on linux.”

neutral · production · hermitdev · 2016-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“My OCaml programs are very often far shorter than my Python programs.”

neutral · personal · throwaway729 · 2016-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been building up a little library of utilities that work with Haxe's other compilation targets - mainly JS, C++, Python, and C# for me.”

neutral · personal · rpeden · 2016-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“If I need to automate something, I use a GNU Makefile, or Python.”

neutral · personal · to3m · 2016-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we were using essentially the entire feature set in production.”

neutral · production · tedmielczarek · 2016-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I recently (for the last 3-4 months) attempted to code a CMS as a side project. I've chosen Python+Flask+SQL and vanilla JS”

neutral · personal · 0.33 yr · terminalcommand · 2016-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've worked in dynamic languages for most of my career (Python, JS, Clojure)”

neutral · production · grayrest · 2016-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“gnome-terminal running python or C/C++ compiles.”

neutral · personal · wyldfire · 2016-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm kind of a python dabbler, but now I have people asking me directly about stuff”

neutral · production · empath75 · 2016-08-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we run 4 different versions of Python, last I checked -- it's absolute madness”

neutral · production · bandrami · 2016-08-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we were writing in (I believe) python 2.3 and had rolled our own web framework”

neutral · production · keysersosa · 2016-07-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“There are two constraints: we use Python and we run multiple copies of the software”

neutral · production · icebraining · 2016-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've run through PHP, Rails, Node, Python (Django) and lately Go.”

neutral · production · stcredzero · 2016-05-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've run through PHP, Rails, Node, Python (Django) and lately Go.”

neutral · production · conorh · 2016-05-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched our backend from Python to Node almost 2 years ago now and it was a great decision for us.”

neutral · production · Chris911 · 2016-05-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Then we moved to python and still I was at least able to do”

neutral · production · a-saleh · 2016-04-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“"old fashioned" ETL scripting in Python (now some Go) on the backend.”

neutral · production · bsg75 · 2016-02-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Then we run Python (with virtualenv or Buildout) or Node (with npm)”

neutral · production · Scarblac · 2015-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We were Python, Java, and Go and all were terrible.”

neutral · production · optionalparens · 2015-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we saw at least 10x or more increase in memory usage than cpython when we switched to pypy”

neutral · production · stock_toaster · 2015-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Reading intellisense python documentation in the mouse over window is really tedious.”

neutral · personal · saboot · 2015-08-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Having been using Python professionally for about 8 years now”

neutral · production · 8 yr · drglitch · 2015-08-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I started with something like that when I was missing function composition in Python.”

neutral · personal · architech · 2015-07-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I do most of my backend programming in Python (Flask)”

neutral · production · izyda · 2015-07-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“In stb-tester[1] ... after a few years we've settled on a `wait_until` function”

neutral · production · drothlis · 2015-07-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“already quite familiar with python. Been using flask for everything I do so far”

neutral · personal · nstart · 2015-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Although my self-teaching of programming began in Python it ended up veering through Racket and Smalltalk.”

neutral · personal · muraiki · 2015-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The approach we use for large files in our Python app is to set an X-Accel-Redirect header”

neutral · production · laurencerowe · 2015-07-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I write mostly write C, Bash, Python, Go, Puppet.”

neutral · production · sleepydog · 2015-07-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“and a bunch of custom python, java, and javascript code.”

neutral · production · markbnj · 2015-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It's also one of the main reasons I have been using Octave and Python/Anaconda.”

neutral · personal · arca_vorago · 2015-06-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've been using the python celery task queue library to coordinate python ETL-esque jobs”

neutral · production · mycelium · 2015-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I fixed a bug caused by exactly this recently in a program in production that had been humming along nicely”

neutral · production · swinglock · 2015-06-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm torn about these choices, I've tried and liked them, but am a bit out of my element as primarily a python/c developer.”

neutral · production · mixmastamyk · 2015-06-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“What we have implemented was a Python decorator to have the tasks actually fired after the function completion”

neutral · production · LukaAl · 2015-05-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“At work, we switched to pypy for the speed. For a spell-checker I made in python”

neutral · production · unhammer · 2015-04-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I did similar things for Python and JavaScript, as many others here did, I suppose. It's better than nothing, but it still bombs in prod”

neutral · production · nine_k · 2015-04-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“in my day job I work on an app with 350k lines of Python in it”

neutral · production · evmar · 2015-04-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“our installations of nginx[1], Python[2], pip[3], rust[4], mongo, consul[4], openldap[1], gcc[3]”

neutral · production · deathanatos · 2015-03-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“my production skill set includes php, c, c++, python, ruby, erlang, scheme, javascript, scala”

neutral · production · Ixiaus · 2014-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been coding for over 30 years now (Basic, ASM, C/C++, Java, Python, PHP, JS, Clojure)”

neutral · personal · rivo · 2014-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using 3.4/Asyncio recently and coming from a background of C/Objective C”

neutral · personal · kenrikm · 2014-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I was running python 2.7.3 on my test machine and python 2.7.2 in production.”

neutral · production · dagw · 2014-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've so far only Dockerized the main Python application”

neutral · production · boffbowsh · 2014-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“As a member of another large-ish Python dev shop with a number of dependencies”

neutral · production · fndrplayer13 · 2014-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been charmed by Go lately and replacing python, small C/C++ and shell-scripts with small tools written in it.”

neutral · personal · koffiezet · 2014-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using python to augment my 6502 assembly.”

neutral · personal · boomlinde · 2014-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I decided to start a new project in Python, using the standard urllib2.”

neutral · personal · 5 yr · rg3 · 2014-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I currently get around this by using a socket interface to pass messages to python.”

neutral · production · 0.25 yr · msravi · 2014-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use a lot of c++ and python, but always for managing encapsulated low level code.”

neutral · production · Htsthbjig · 2014-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've programmed a lot in Python before I started using NodeJS.”

neutral · personal · CyberFonic · 2014-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we wrote it in house and use some python fabric scripts to do it.”

neutral · production · conorgil145 · 2014-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The service exists as a bunch of Java and Python scripts running on data sets in zip files.”

neutral · production · ritwikt · 2014-03-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“she doesn't speak Python which is what we run.”

neutral · production · drakaal · 2014-03-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“even if we do get the change to Python 3 itself, it also requires a substantial rewrite of the hg codebase”

neutral · production · jordigh · 2013-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we all use it via matlab, python+scientific packages, and so on.”

neutral · production · RogerL · 2013-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have been using python for a year+ now. Most of the everyday stuff can be done in 2.7”

neutral · personal · 1 yr · anilshanbhag · 2013-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“usually it's native, or at least something like Python or C#.”

neutral · production · kabdib · 2013-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Perl's TMTOWTDI is the reason I moved to Python.”

neutral · production · disputin · 2013-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Having learned perl, ruby and python (these are all incredibly similar), and then Clojure”

neutral · personal · Myk267 · 2013-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“You can rig up code on your Mac in R, Python, etc. and then hand it over to the cluster fairly effortlessly, at least in my experience”

neutral · production · Fomite · 2013-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I agree it would be more elegant if I didn't need to invoke Python.”

neutral · personal · pheelicks · 2013-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use it in production to recommend image searchterms based on unstructured text, and it performs better with a few lines of python code”

neutral · production · sbrother · 2013-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we moved to the OpenCV Python libraries and other high performance Python libraries such as SciPy.”

neutral · production · pbrook · 2013-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Been using python for 7+ years now... every place I have worked (and currently working at). Is bound by 3rd party tools and what ever interpreter they built against.”

neutral · production · 7 yr · computerhead · 2013-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“there is even Python code in my current work project just written in the past six months which is tasked with parsing such files”

neutral · production · zzzeek · 2013-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using Python for a while for fun and Ruby (Rails) on and off.”

neutral · personal · edwinnathaniel · 2013-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“moving the python library dependencies from the client to the server”

neutral · production · aidos · 2013-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've worked with python/Django, rails, and node.js on real complex apps with huge amounts of business logic built in them.”

neutral · production · jaegerpicker · 2013-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have quite a few projects based on django, and these are still 2.7.”

neutral · personal · Xixi · 2013-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“whether existing infrastructure would work with python 3 or it wouldn't (and something had to be fixed).”

neutral · production · rplnt · 2013-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the back end ended up having to be python (for computationally heavy tasks)”

neutral · production · czbond · 2013-08-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched out to Python/PostgreSQL as to be honest it was getting expensive”

neutral · production · kryten · 2013-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“it was my first time doing anything in python and it helped greatly.”

neutral · personal · kclay · 2013-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We have an acceptance test suite for the existing app (pre-Dart) using web driver and written in Python”

neutral · production · tosh · 2013-04-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“some use Qt, some use GTK, written in python and some in C or C++”

neutral · production · noselasd · 2013-03-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The way we handle that for our Python deploys is to have a separate "deploy" git repo”

neutral · production · simonw · 2013-01-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“such as C++/Java/Javascript/Perl/Python. I found that if I use them in my work, I would become good at them”

neutral · production · ww520 · 2012-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The technologies we use are pretty standard web dev stuff (HTML/CSS/JS and Python/Django).”

neutral · production · yesimahuman · 2012-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I use Python in production for text pre-processing and other ETL-related processes”

neutral · production · law · 2012-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“my biplist Python package has the versions available here”

neutral · personal · wooster · 2012-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm dabbling in Python and Node.js to see if I might want to move more of the backend services away from PHP”

neutral · personal · geerlingguy · 2012-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I know we use Python (with Pyramid) for a lot of internal things at work”

neutral · production · flexd · 2012-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“so much production software is running on RHEL/Centos systems with 2.6.”

neutral · production · darkarmani · 2012-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I sometimes let some ugliness slip in especially in looping in Python.”

neutral · personal · dizzystar · 2012-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have an outstanding code editor and development environments for Lisp, Scheme, Python, J, F# and JavaScript.”

neutral · personal · taylodl · 2012-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the python process was using a grand 33 megabytes of memory”

neutral · production · RoboTeddy · 2012-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“getting enough code written that I can automate the parsing and inject this into postgresql”

neutral · personal · niels_olson · 2012-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“In our project we use Prolog for classical reasoning, C++ for signal processing, and Python for a dynamic architecture.”

neutral · production · tlarkworthy · 2012-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“making everyone install MikTex, pandoc and Python”

neutral · production · swah · 2012-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've managed to get some easy 2x speedups by switching from Python's re to re2, even though re is usually faster.”

neutral · personal · pjscott · 2012-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I very seldom see an assertion error crop up in production. When they do, I know the program has gone completely haywire”

neutral · production · fdr · 2012-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have worked with code bases that both have them on in production and have them off in production”

neutral · production · fdr · 2012-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we switched over to AWS (python, nginx/tornado, mongo) last year”

neutral · production · wrath · 2012-08-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“lets you run multiple Python apps under the same intepreter (multitenancy)”

neutral · production · rlander · 2012-05-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“At work we run unittests targeting different python versions”

neutral · production · JDavo · 2012-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I eventually dipped my toe into Python 3”

neutral · personal · EnderMB · 2012-03-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I work in Python because it's what most clients are using.”

neutral · production · CoffeeDregs · 2011-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Sure, I came with experience in ruby and python, so learning coffee script was just one happy afternoon”

neutral · personal · radagaisus · 2011-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we had to ship a Python clone of Redis we called MiniRedis”

neutral · production · tghw · 2011-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using these: learnpythonthehardway.org, greenteapress.com/thinkpython”

neutral · personal · dlf · 2011-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using Python 3 at work for around 2 years now”

neutral · production · 2 yr · briancurtin · 2011-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we use Django / python / Asterisk as our primary tools, along with OpenSIPs for routing SIP traffic.”

neutral · production · 3 yr · b14ck · 2011-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“it's SLOW. As in, 54 times slower than a simple sum -- tested on xrange(1,10) -- on my development Macbook Pro.”

neutral · production · cbo · 2011-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“feeding the news into the python back-end running on AWS”

neutral · production · dem · 2011-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I spend a few hours removing those evil "import *" from our codebase...”

neutral · production · gbog · 2011-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We developed some software first in other languages (Java, Scala, Python), usually to make a prototype”

neutral · production · microtonal · 2011-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have been using these to learn programming (Python specifically, which is my first language).”

neutral · personal · wattjustin · 2011-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we use a python view server instead of a JS one”

neutral · production · rdtsc · 2011-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“In the end, we moved to Python for similar reasons.”

neutral · production · cheez · 2011-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Weird days when i have to golf in Python but don't need to in Perl.”

neutral · production · Mithaldu · 2011-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“my workflow is different from languages like Python... like I do with languages like Python or C.”

neutral · personal · swah · 2011-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I undertook to move to Python for web development about 8 months ago”

neutral · personal · mekoka · 2011-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I decided it would be fun to have guards in Python and decorators were just the tool.”

neutral · personal · softbuilder · 2011-09-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I don't need to change python/apache etc. that often, it is not like I need to recompile for every code deploy.”

neutral · production · tingletech · 2011-09-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have Python code running in production that was written originally for Python 1.5.2.”

neutral · production · rbanffy · 2011-09-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“But usually I work on our in-house CRM app, and a few dozens of Python glue scripts to make the database flow happen.”

neutral · production · Luyt · 2011-05-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we run a separate sandboxed instance of transmission-daemon for each download request. Interestingly, although the backend is written in Python”

neutral · production · choogi · 2011-03-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I side step the lack of closures by using named locals with the keyword arguments when defining inner functions.”

neutral · personal · stevvooe · 2010-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Ours was a Python/Django app and just took a few lines of configuration to get up and running.”

neutral · production · geuis · 2010-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“had the page generation, business logic, templating, etc., on the server side (Python).”

neutral · production · RyanDScott · 2010-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I mostly use Python for this class of things at the moment.”

neutral · personal · eru · 2010-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have been using python for so long, there are undoubtedly problems with it”

neutral · personal · Estragon · 2010-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“our startup (realtimefarms.com) also runs on GAE (python though)”

neutral · production · krosaen · 2010-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use python on GAE, and chose tornado”

neutral · production · krosaen · 2010-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“major languages we use like PhP, Python, Ruby, Java”

neutral · production · devmonk · 2010-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“plus a mix of Java, Ruby, Python, and whatever else will get the job done.”

neutral · production · mullr · 2010-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“So I'm a newbie python/django person that has been using them both for about 6 months now.”

neutral · personal · 0.5 yr · grovulent · 2010-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Ruby for one set of management panels and Python for one of our other systems.”

neutral · production · sanswork · 2010-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Killed backup scripts, installed python 2.7”

neutral · production · gridspy · 2010-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use MBP for cross-platform C++ and Python programming.”

neutral · production · Maro · 2010-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've tried a lot of Python frameworks out before deciding on Flask.”

neutral · personal · luffy · 2010-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we have a stdin2scribe program (python) that can be used to hook into any log output”

neutral · production · thwarted · 2010-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we ditched python in mongrel2 because of Linux. Never said the latter, only the former.”

neutral · production · zedshaw · 2010-09-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Here's a snippet of code out of my gearman implementation... w.submit('test', 'some data')”

neutral · production · dlsspy · 2010-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Moreover, I even tried using import html as h to save typing.”

neutral · production · ljlolel · 2010-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've had more eye opening experiences programming in Clojure than in any language I learned before it. (C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, common lisp)”

neutral · personal · rosejn · 2010-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Even those of us who would like to be using Python 3 full time can not due to dependencies.”

neutral · production · jnoller · 2010-07-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've had slowness in both Java and Python”

neutral · production · floodfx · 2010-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched from Apache to nginx and are now running in a full MySQL / python / fcgi / nginx / memcached environment.”

neutral · production · omarish · 2010-06-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“with Python as it's main API interface”

neutral · production · 0.7 yr · rit · 2010-03-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“have hooked into it using a custom PHP/Python application.”

neutral · production · scorchin · 2010-02-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?