Do You Use Python For Anything Besides Data Science?

I am curious if Python is still seeing use in enterprise application development. Do you use Python (professionally or otherwise) for anything outside of the following areas:

• Data Science (like heavy statistics work)
• AI/ML
• NLP

I know you can do other stuff in Python, but do you?

Comments

[Rodrigo Schio]

I do !
My website is programmed in python.

[Kah]

At a recent Python meetup, we had a demo of someone automating their house with Home Assistant and, at work, we make use of Ansible - both open source projects using Python!

[HS]

I use it for quick scripts to import some data or transform it or just to print out result to console to check it out. I just started recently and it's not too attractive to me to switch over everything. Like lambdas have to be defined in lamda x: x.somefun() ... while on JVM stack I'm used to x -> x.doSomething(). Also map(lambda x: x.call(), list) is much uglier to me than list.map(x -> x.call(). Once I learn more maybe I'll find prettier ways and start using it for most of my small stuff like I do Groovy + Micronaut now.

[Avinash Dalvi]

Yes I used for AWS automation like CD, CI , Creating AWS instances etc. Also sometime i used for based API creation.

[moiseszeleny]

I use python to do all my symbolic and numerical calculations in my research of particle physics.

[Raphael Habereder]

I do love me some Python for automation and admin stuff. For example to format json, because the admin hates me and I don't have jq on hand, like this:
echo '{"one":1,"two":2}' | python -m json.tool

Though, I've been having a really good time with go lately, which will probably replace Python for me in the long run.

[Anuj Singh]

Doing web automation by writing scripts.

[rhymes]

Python is from 1991, it got famous for the latest evolution of data science relatively recently (though Numpy and SciPy are not new). I've worked, in a professional and non professional environment on: parsers, web servers and web apps, lots of data manipulation, data science, game dev, networking and socket programming, scripting and system administration, even school assignments back then 😂

Having been a long time user to me it's a bit amusing when people discover Python has.a long and tried history of being used for anything but data science and AI.

I will leave you a few keywords if you want to do some research: Python and Django and Celery at Instagram, Python at YouTube, Industrial Light and Magic, Google's abandoned project Unladen Swallow, MyPy which basically came out of Dropbox as they have a massive Python codebase, Eve online and Python, all the financial companies using Python to interface with C++ numeric libraries like QuantLib and many other types of usage.

Python was literally designed to be a general purpose language easily extendable by C or C++ and I remember a time when people were complaining that all Python devs were building was web frameworks and blog engines (for example Django is as old as Rails though less popular)

[Muhimen]

Python is my main language. I use it all the time.

• API wrappers
• Automation
• CLI apps
• scraping
• competitive programming

just to name a few

[Saakshaat Singh]

I use Python everyday for building backend servers using FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Pydantic and all that jazz. It's pretty nice. Everyday I learn something new.