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\end{quote}  However, this survey was limited to researchers at UK institutions. More importantly, it was not focused on astronomers, who may have quite different software practices from scientists in other fields.  Motivated by these issues and related discussions during the .Astronomy 6 conference, we created a survey to explore software use in astronomy. In this paper, we discuss the methodology of the survey in \S \ref{sec:datamethods}, the results from the multiple-choice sections in \S \ref{sec:res} and the free-form comments in \S \ref{sec:comments}. In \S \ref{sec:ssicompare} we compare our results to the aforementioned SSI survey, survey  and in \S \ref{sec:conc} we conclude. Additionally, we have made the anonymized results of the survey (as of the time of this writing) and the code to generate the summary figures available at \url{https://github.com/eteq/software_survey_analysis}. This repository may be updated in the future if a significant number of new respondents fill out the survey\footnote{\url{https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SgdebWYHqMsDTS6Y1GRVQ2H4S-ncCz_VoWpJQd1YX9o/viewform}}.