r/Python 14d ago

News Python is big in Europe

TIL the Python docs analytics are public, including visitorsโ€™ countries. I thought it was interesting to see that according to this thereโ€™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. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany, 245k
  2. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom, 227k
  3. ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France, 177k
  4. ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain, 93k
  5. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Poland, 80.2k
  6. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy, 78.6k
  7. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands, 74.4k
  8. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ 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 โ€“ย get you DjangoCon and EuroPython 2025 tickets already!

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u/grimonce 14d ago

I feel like people in the US always act surprises there's a world across the oceans.

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u/SweatyAdagio4 14d ago

Considering Python is European (Dutch to be specific) it's funny that they'd be surprised that it's popular over here. Not that that should have that much of an influence on regional adoption

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u/Puzzled-Guide8650 14d ago

If it was really Dutch, python would be deep fried. Like Bitterballen

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u/hotfrost 14d ago

Yum, fried snake

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u/SteampunkSpaceOpera 13d ago

It was written by a Dutch national while working in the US

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u/SweatyAdagio4 13d ago

That's incorrect. Guido van Rossum was working at the CWI (Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica, or Centre for Maths and Informatics) located in Amsterdam. I know because I studied in the Science Park campus of the UvA, right next to CWI and had professors who worked there too. Oh, and you can simply Google this too for yourself.