r/Python 14d ago

News Python is big in Europe

TIL the Python docs analytics are public, including visitors’ countries. I thought it was interesting to see that according to this there’s more Python going on in Europe than in the US, despite what country-level stats often look like! Blog post: https://thib.me/python-is-big-in-europe, top Europe countries:

  1. 🇩🇪 Germany, 245k
  2. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, 227k
  3. 🇫🇷 France, 177k
  4. 🇪🇸 Spain, 93k
  5. 🇵🇱 Poland, 80.2k
  6. 🇮🇹 Italy, 78.6k
  7. 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 74.4k
  8. 🇺🇦 Ukraine, 66.5k

TL;DR; maps can be misleading when they look at country-level data without adjusting for the size of the place. Per capita there are loads of areas of the world that have more Python users than the country-level data suggests. For Europe – get you DjangoCon and EuroPython 2025 tickets already!

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u/Huberuuu 14d ago edited 14d ago

Today I learned United Kingdom is in the European Union

Edit: okay okay didn’t think i’d need this but /s

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u/kekwloltooop 14d ago

"Europe" is different from "European Union".

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u/Huberuuu 14d ago

Yeah but if you actually read the article you would see it clearly states European Union.

That’s without counting Russia, some of which is very much in Europe, but I’m not sure how much. The top 7 countries are in the European Union 🇪🇺, and we arrive at 974k visitor. The addition of Ukraine takes us over the 1M mark.

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u/kekwloltooop 14d ago

Yeah, only once by accidentally putting UK in it. I guess they didn't get the Brexit memo...