Is Python programming a marketable skill?

[JimmyJazz]

I've been spending alot of time learning Python latley and really love it, my question though will there be a market for me to get a job using my python skills? So far I've noticed that not many companies use python so this is why I ask.

[noob_Lance]

personally i dont think it is... but python is alot like c.. so go from there and work your way up. thats what ive been told by my profs anyways lol.

[jerome bettis]

around here i haven't seen a single job that mentions python. j2ee and asp.net are all over the place. not a lot of c++ entry level jobs either. jobs in a nix environment are more common than i thought, i'm going to hold out for one of those, i generally don't mind windows but it's much better to do development over here.

i think most managers generally don't see python as enterprise ready yet.

[Darkness3477]

I know google uses Python, but that's about all I know about Python in the work place.

[sapo]

around here i haven't seen a single job that mentions python. j2ee and asp.net are all over the place. not a lot of c++ entry level jobs either. jobs in a nix environment are more common than i thought, i'm going to hold out for one of those, i generally don't mind windows but it's much better to do development over here.

i think most managers generally don't see python as enterprise ready yet.
I think that they dont know that python exists.. lol..

My boss didnt know about python, till i solved one tricky problem using python, and now i m doing a lot of stuff in python at my work :)

[gord]

python is more of a programmers language, one that people learn because they like to program. thus it doesn't get noticed much in the comercial world, unfortunatly. best thing to do is learn more than just python, then get a job doing C++ or something and convert all those around you to pythonites ;)

[JimmyJazz]

well I know python will alway be handy but I am looking to build a bit of a resume lucky for me PHP is in high demand. I'm gonna stick with python though because I love it and even if its not what my potential bosses are looking for I know it will probably be valuable in the workplace anyway.

[supirman]

We use some python for our products, but having experience with it won't really get you an advantage in the hiring process. If you're solid in the fundamentals of computer science and have a command of lower level languages, you should be able to easily pick up python in no time.

As it stands, I've not seen many jobs posted with python as a requirement.

[Jimmey]

http://www.python.org
'NASA uses Python'.

I think that the nature of Python itself means that it's more likely to be used to solve the odd problem here, and there, than to develop large scale applications. And, even the applications that are developed in Python are usually GPLd.

Maybe not marketable, ( as such), but infinately useful.

[thumper]

Python is rapidly becoming more well known - especially in the financial industry (where I currently work).

It might not get you a job, but it does add another string to your bow.

The Python Paradox (http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html) by Paul Graham is an interesting look at the marketability of python :)

[briancurtin]

thumper is right. i worked for a pretty large investment bank (several locations in london where thumper is at) this past summer, and two summers previous to that and python is pretty big there. i believe it is pretty similar everywhere else. my father works at the same place and has been huge on python for quite a while, and uses it for a ton of things.

ive brought up python in a few of my recent interviews, and while they havent talked about actually using python directly for anything the companies are doing, they have been interested in it. i dont know all that much python, but showing that you know any has been a good for me.

[anti-net]

I've noticed a lot more sites (web 2.0 kinda stuff) been written in python now, so maybe web dev and python is a marketable skill.

[Ozitraveller]

And some else is interested too!

IronPython: Python on the .NET Framework
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20051110PythonJH/manifest.xml

IronPython
http://www.ironpython.com/
http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=ad7acff7-ab1e-4bcb-99c0-57ac5a3a9742

IronPython: A fast Python implementation for .NET and Mono
http://www.python.org/pycon/dc2004/papers/9/
http://www.python.org/~jeremy/weblog/031209a.html

[Ubuntuud]

I think that they dont know that python exists.. lol..

My boss didnt know about python, till i solved one tricky problem using python, and now i m doing a lot of stuff in python at my work :)

What do you do?