#446 State of Python 2025

Topics covered in this episode:

• * pypistats.org was down, is now back, and there’s a CLI*
• * State of Python 2025*
• * wrapt: A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching.*
• pysentry
• Extras
• Joke

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Brian #1: pypistats.org was down, is now back, and there’s a CLI

• pypistats.org is a cool site to check the download stats for Python packages.

• It was down for a while, like 3 weeks?

• A couple days ago, Hugo van Kemenade announced that it was back up.

• With some changes in stewardship

  • “pypistats.org is back online! 🚀📈

    Thanks to @jezdez for suggesting the @ThePSF takes stewardship and connecting the right people, to @EWDurbin for migrating, and of course to Christopher Flynn for creating and running it for all these years!”

• Hugo has a CLI version, pypistats

  • You can give it a command for what you want to search for
    • recent,overall, python_major, python_minor, system
  • Then either a package name, a directory path, or if nothing, it will grab the current directory package via pyproject.toml or setup.cfg
  • very cool

Michael #2: State of Python 2025

• Michael’s Themes
  • Python people use Python: 86% of respondents use Python as their main language
  • We are mostly brand-new programmers: Exactly 50% of respondents have less than two years of professional coding experience
  • Data science is now over half of all Python
  • Most still use older Python versions despite benefits of newer releases: Compelling math to make the change.
  • Python web devs resurgence
• Forward-looking trends
  • Agentic AI will be wild
  • Async, await, and threading are becoming core to Python
  • Python GUIs and mobile are rising
• Actionable ideas
  • Action 1: Learn uv
  • Action 2: Use the latest Python