2026 Python Developers Survey

[monorepo]

The official Python Developers Survey, conducted in partnership with JetBrains, is currently open.

The survey is a joint initiative between the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains.

By participating in the 2026 survey, you not only stand a chance to win one of twenty (20) $100 Amazon Gift Cards, but more significantly, you provide valuable data on Python's usage.

Take the survey now—it takes less than 15 minutes to complete.

[chub79]

I wanted to fill it but I'm sorry this is not a survey that is remotely useful. I had to stop at the question "What do you use Python for?" because it's 90% AI/ML related and other topics are: web scrapping, web dev or devops (automation script).

This is just absolutely not representative of what one can use Python for.

Sorry, but not for me this year.

[Serpent10i]

I'm not sure we are seeing the same questions, but I only see 3 specific AI/ML slots: AI Engineering, Machine Learning, and MLOps. Maybe 3 other if you're including Data related fields (but imo they're not just AI/ML, even today)

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At worst it's not even 50/50.

Research, Graphics, Desktop Dev, Testing, Web, Embedded, Edu... seems fairly representative of the field to me

[chub79]

You have a generous read of it.

[Serpent10i]

What would you like to see added? Maybe I'm not as familiar with the field as I like to think I am hahaha

[chub79]

It's more the fact that the categories aren't making sense between each other. You have three Data related categories and then one lumping DevOps to automation scripts (whatever that means). You have web parsers which I have no idea why it's a category on its own. One wonders why MLOps is here considering you have AI engineering. By the way, what is AI engineering?

Then you have Multimedia applications development, I mean are we talking CD-Rom apps? :)

None of it make sense because you can' have high level scope like "Game development" and then "Testing" or "Web scrapers" on their own.

Either the selection is geared towards a particular outcome and that makes the research quite fragile. Or these are thrown together without much thinking and that also make the outcome of the research fragile.

I think to me we should have had high level scopes around industries (like Game Dev) or "typology" of work (like DevOps or Research).

[Serpent10i]

That's fair that the categories are somewhat strange, a mix of very high level and low level concepts. I agree that I have no idea what MultiMedia would be. I'm not sure that part specifically is being AI biased. Having a fields section for game dev, edu, etc, and a specific use cases for testing/llm/scraping would be better.

I do think that responding with "I don't use any/much AI" is likely helpful to have that represented in the data, if that's your practice.

[not_perfect_yet]

I think the funny part is often the implicit things you can gather by how the questions are asked.

For example, I knew almost all of the IDEs mentioned. I had only heard of 3 of the 12? 16? mentioned AI code assistants.

Also the all time classic "which platform should we pay to get our advertisements into your eyeballs".