Bob and I have spent many years as Python devs, and 6 years coaching with Pybites and we can safely say that being a Senior Developer is only about 1/3 Python knowledge. The other 60% is the ecosystem. It's the tooling. It's all of the tech around Python that makes you stand out from the rest. This is the biggest blind spot keeping developers stuck in Tutorial Hell. You spend hours memorising obscure library features, but you crumble when asked to configure a CI/CD pipeline.
The EuroPython tradition of post-conference sprints came alive once again in Prague, bringing together open-source maintainers, newcomers, and curious contributors for two days of coding, learning, and collaboration. And the results? Across all projects, over 81 pull requests were merged during the weekend 🎉. That's dozens of fixes, improvements, and first-time contributions landing directly into Python's ecosystem in just two days.