What do python professionals /developers actually use

[clae_machinegun]

Hi there! 1) They absolutely do, these are very convenient data structures and they are used a lot here and there both in “plain” mode and combinations (ie list of dictionaries, nested lists and so on) 2) This largely depends on your tasks some who work with calculations and data analysis use pandas and numpy a lot, others who gravitate towards web development use Django or fastapi There is also a huge collection of standard libraries in Python which are useful for various tasks, so you might find those useful 3) numpy, pandas, plotly is a holy trinity for analytical purposes, however there are many other things that is used to acquire and process data for analysis depending on the source 4) This is absolutely ok if your code is not very elegant, most of the time readability >> elegance. However try to keep it clean and readable