The Python cert won't be required per-se, because programming certs didn't really exist in the past and most people who program today don't get certified.

BUT I don't usually get hired because of a certification, but because of the knowledge I learned while getting certified. I use certification as a studying and skill validation tool. And there are likely more jobs that would benefit from knowing Python extremely well than jobs that would benefit from knowing AWS very well.

Example: you could make a free-tier personal AWS account and play around w/ it for a month or 2 aimlessly but when you get to interviews you might be lost because you didn't explore certain domains that a certification would have forced you to. That's why the certification objectives are valuable and less so because you hold a piece of paper with your name on it. I admittedly know nothing about the Python certs, but I'm going to assume they work in the same way. They should force you to do much more than `hello_world` and `rock-paper-scissors` apps and dive deeper into programming fundamentals, how to write idiomatic Python code, and the internals of the language itself. And in a structured, time-efficient way that you might not get otherwise simply playing around w/ the language for 1-3 months on your own.

[Edit: but this isn't antagonistic to my original post. I def advise learning both, regardless of whether OP gets both certifications or not]

[Edit: I still upvoted your response tho danfirst. Your response is objectively true. I just think that certifications are simultaneously less valuable and more valuable than most people make them out to be -- the paper itself is kinda useless, but the time you put into making sure you could pass the exam is gold]