I don't use Python much anymore

19 Mar 2025
💬 EN

It just occurred to me that I don’t use Python much these days for scripting odd jobs.

• Powershell tends to come preinstalled on every machine I work with, Windows or Linux.
• I don’t do enough serious data work lately to need Python’s pandas module very often.

Hunh. Interesting.

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Edit, 6/9/25: I just wrote this to a colleague who asked if anyone knew who’s using Python at my organization and for what purposes/solutions. I replied with my take about why it’s still useful in some enterprise shell-scripting settings:

“The data scientists use it regularly.

“It’s often used locally on desktops, the way your average employee with a Windows box might use PowerShell.

“However, but its spreadsheet-crunching libraries are way better than PowerShell’s.

“Lots of libraries that do fancy statistical and mathematical operations on extremely large datasets very fast, with very understandable commands.”