Your Python. Your Voice. Join the Python Developers Survey 2026!

This year marks the ninth iteration of the official Python Developers Survey. We intentionally launched the survey in January (later than years prior) so that data collection and results can be completed and shared within the same calendar year. The survey aims to capture the current state of the Python language and its surrounding ecosystem. By comparing the results with last year’s, the community can identify emerging trends and gain deeper insight into how Python continues to evolve.

We encourage you to contribute to our community’s knowledge by sharing your experience and perspective. Your participation is valued! The survey should only take you about 10-15 minutes to complete. 

Contribute to the Python Developers Survey 2026!

This year we aim to reach even more of our community and ensure accurate global representation by highlighting our localization efforts: 

• The survey is translated into Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish. 
• To assist individuals in promoting the survey and encouraging their local communities and professional networks we have created a Promotion Kit with images and social media posts translated into a variety of languages. We hope this promotion kit empowers folks to spread the invitation to respond to the survey within their local communities.
• We’d love it if you’d share one or more of the posts in the Promotion Kit to your social media or any community accounts you manage, as well as share the information in Python related discords, mailing lists, or chats you participate in.
• If you would like to help out with translations you see are missing, please request edit access to the doc and share what language you will be translating to. Translations for promotions into languages the survey may not be translated to is also welcome! 

If you have ideas about what else we can do to get the word out and encourage a diversity of responses, please comment on the corresponding Discuss thread. 

The survey is organized in partnership between the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains. After the survey is over, JetBrains will publish the aggregated results and randomly choose 20 winners (among those who complete the survey in its entirety), who will each receive a $100 Amazon Gift Card or a local equivalent.

Departing the Python Software Foundation (Staff)

This week will be my last as the Director of Infrastructure at the Python Software Foundation and my last week as a staff member. Supporting the mission of this organization with my labor has been unbelievable in retrospect and I am filled with gratitude to every member of this community, volunteer, sponsor, board member, and staff member of this organization who have worked alongside me and entrusted me with root@python.org for all this time.

But, it is time for me to do something new. I don’t believe there would ever be a perfect time for this transition, but I do believe that now is one of the best. The PSF has built out a team that shares the responsibilities I carried across our technical infrastructure, the maintenance and support of PyPI, relationships with our in-kind sponsors, and the facilitation of PyCon US. I’m also not “burnt-out” or worse, I knew that one day I would move on “dead or alive” and it is so good to feel alive in this decision, literally and figuratively.

“The PSF and the Python community are very lucky to have had Ee at the helm for so many years. Ee’s approach to our technical needs has been responsive and resilient as Python, PyPI, PSF staff and the community have all grown, and their dedication to the community has been unmatched and unwavering. Ee is leaving the PSF in fantastic shape, and I know I join the rest of the staff in wishing them all the best as they move on to their next endeavor.” 

- Deb Nicholson, Executive Director

The health and wellbeing of the PSF and the Python community is of utmost importance to me, and was paramount as I made decisions around this transition. Given that, I am grateful to be able to commit 20% of my time over the next six months to the PSF to provide support and continuity. Over the past few weeks we’ve been working internally to set things up for success, and I look forward to meeting the new staff and what they accomplish with the team at the PSF!

My participation in the Python community and contributions to the infrastructure began long before my role as a staff member. As I transition out of participating as PSF staff I look forward to continuing to participate in and contribute to this community as a volunteer, as long as I am lucky enough to have the chance.

Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q4 2025! 🎉

 

The PSF is pleased to announce its fourth batch of PSF Fellows for 2025! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q4! The following people continue to do amazing things for the Python community:

Chris Brousseau

Website, LinkedIn, GitHub, Mastodon, X, PyBay, PyBay GitHub

Dave Forgac

Website, Mastodon, GitHub, LinkedIn

Inessa Pawson

GitHub, LinkedIn

James Abel

Website, LinkedIn, GitHub, Bluesky

Karen Dalton

LinkedIn

Mia Bajić

Tatiana Andrea Delgadillo Garzofino

Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Instagram

Thank you for your continued contributions. We have added you to our Fellows Roster.

The above members help support the Python ecosystem by being phenomenal leaders, sustaining the growth of the Python scientific community, maintaining virtual Python communities, maintaining Python libraries, creating educational material, organizing Python events and conferences, starting Python communities in local regions, and overall being great mentors in our community. Each of them continues to help make Python more accessible around the world. To learn more about the new Fellow members, check out their links above.

Let's continue recognizing Pythonistas all over the world for their impact on our community. The criteria for Fellow members is available on our PSF Fellow Membership page. If you would like to nominate someone to be a PSF Fellow, please send a description of their Python accomplishments and their email address to psf-fellow at python.org. We are accepting nominations for Quarter 1 of 2026 through February 20th, 2026.

Are you a PSF Fellow and want to help the Work Group review nominations? Contact us at psf-fellow at python.org.

Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security

We are thrilled to announce that Anthropic has entered into a two-year partnership with the Python Software Foundation (PSF) to contribute a landmark total of $1.5 million to support the foundation’s work, with an emphasis on Python ecosystem security. This investment will enable the PSF to make crucial security advances to CPython and the Python Package Index (PyPI) benefiting all users, and it will also sustain the foundation’s core work supporting the Python language, ecosystem, and global community.

Innovating open source security

Anthropic’s funds will enable the PSF to make progress on our security roadmap, including work designed to protect millions of PyPI users from attempted supply-chain attacks. Planned projects include creating new tools for automated proactive review of all packages uploaded to PyPI, improving on the current process of reactive-only review. We intend to create a new dataset of known malware that will allow us to design these novel tools, relying on capability analysis. One of the advantages of this project is that we expect the outputs we develop to be transferable to all open source package repositories. As a result, this work has the potential to ultimately improve security across multiple open source ecosystems, starting with the Python ecosystem.

This work will build on PSF Security Developer in Residence Seth Larson’s security roadmap with contributions from PyPI Safety and Security Engineer Mike Fiedler, both roles generously funded by Alpha-Omega. 

Sustaining the Python language, ecosystem, and community

Anthropic’s support will also go towards the PSF’s core work, including the Developer in Residence program driving contributions to CPython, community support through grants and other programs, running core infrastructure such as PyPI, and more. We couldn’t be more grateful for Anthropic’s remarkable support, and we hope you will join us in thanking them for their investment in the PSF and the Python community.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is the AI research and development company behind Claude — the frontier model used by millions of people worldwide.

About the PSF

The Python Software Foundation is a non-profit whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers. The PSF supports the Python community using corporate sponsorships, grants, and donations. Are you interested in sponsoring or donating to the PSF so we can continue supporting Python and its community? Check out our sponsorship program, donate directly here, or contact our team!