Question on Python as career

[Roy Smith]

joy99 <subhakolkata1234 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Group,
> 
> I am a researcher in India's one of the premier institutes.(Indian
> Institute of Science,Bangalore).
> [...]
> I have developed them either in Python2.5 and Python2.6.
> 
> After I complete my Post Doctoral which may be only 2-3 months away,
> with this knowledge can I join IT?
> Or Do I have to learn anything new?

The short answer is, you will always need to keep learning new things.  
Whatever set of technologies are popular today (check out 
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html, for 
example), will change over time.

When I started out, I knew C and Fortran.  I'm amazed that C is still the 
#2 language, and Fortran isn't even on the TIOBE top 20 list any more.  17 
of the 20 didn't even exist when I started out.