How often are symbolic constants used instead of constants in production code?

[fallen coral]

Hi there, I'm new here. I've been developing professionally for a few years now, but I've never really seen something like symbolic constants and was just wondering how often they're actually used over normal constants... I'm coming from Python if that helps at all.

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[next jungle]

Symbolic constants (#defines) are used all the time in C, see this for why:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/5062052/13279557

See also this video by Jacob Sorber on the question:
https://youtu.be/8a3HyL1VN0Q

[vague orchid]

wtf is "production code".... sounds like mroe made up corporate speak.

[elfin crescent]

We use the term "production code".
In our case, it signifies code that will be officially built and released into the wild.

Other code that isn't "production code" includes test frameworks, engineering UIs, unit tests etc.

Most - if not all - code will get peer-reviewed.
But only "production code" will get linted.