[tmm84]

Considering you are working with Python here is my personal experience and of course YMMV.

I use SpaceMacs as my daily driver (never had the want for doom emacs). And programming python was good. I had no "problems" to speak of and I could use emacs commands just fine when I didn't want to use vim-fu.

Vim/Neovim -> I have used both and they worked just as good as emacs when I had the plugins setup to my liking. I found SpaceVim to be more of my style instead of the manual setup though. However, learn the varieties of vim (there's graphical and terminal versions as well as other differences).

TLDR; emacs/vim -> time spent on learning the software and customizing it leads to productivity. If you were used to all the plugins and auto setup of VSCode and you really want to experiment with emacs/vim do it when you have free time and don't mind spending it.